Employment Creation And Local Development

Employment Creation and Destruction: An Analytical Review

by Randall W. Eberts and Edward B. Montgomery Randall W. Eberts is the executive director of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Edward B. Montgomery is a professor of economics at the University of Maryland and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. The authors would like to thank Bennett Harrison and Jagadeesh Gokhale for help...

Effective local strategies to boost quality job creation, employment, and participation

Central banks as agents of employment creation

Employment creation has dropped off the direct agenda of most central banks. Th e so-called “global best practice” approach to central banking has not focused on economic growth or employment generation but rather on keeping infl ation in the low single digits. However, the policy record shows that employment generation and economic growth are often not by-products of infl ation focused central...

Trends in Employment Creation in Europe

Development Aid and Employment

Globalization has led to a precarization of labour, which especially manifests in the unstable working conditions, a lower labour share in national income as well as in a growing income inequality, with the exception of some countries with high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 is...