Structural Changes in Employment Diversification in Pakistan: Assessing the Role of Sectoral Employment Elasticities in Employment Generation

Innovation and Sectoral Employment

The question whether technological progress displaces employment or whether technological advance is beneficial for the level of employment has been in the core of economic dispute for over two centuries. The beneficial might be achieved by several compensation mechanisms within the economic system. In this paper we categorize these compensation mechanisms into two basic categories that reflect...

The Diversification of Employment Patterns in Japan

In the 1990s, we have witnessed various structural changes in the Japanese labor market in the process of unprecedented economic stagnation often described as the 'lost decade'. One of the most impressive is the rapid growth of atypical employment, in particular part-time workers, which now account for nearly one third of total employment. At the same time, what counts as “typical employment” i...

The Role of Credit in Women’s Employment the Case of Women’s Cooperatives in Iran

Commuting, Migration and Local Employment Elasticities∗

Many changes in the economic environment are local, including policy changes and infrastructure investments. The effect of these changes depends crucially on the ability of factors to move in response. Therefore a key object of interest for policy evaluation and design is the elasticity of local employment to these changes in the economic environment. We develop a quantitative general equilibri...

COMMUTING , MIGRATION AND LOCAL EMPLOYMENT ELASTICITIES Ferdinando

Many changes in the economic environment are local, including policy changes and infrastructure investments. The effect of these changes depends crucially on the ability of factors to move in response. Therefore a key object of interest for policy evaluation and design is the elasticity of local employment to these changes in the economic environment. We develop a quantitative general equilibri...