Under a flexible exchange rate regime, the Canadian economy is constantly affected by fluctuations in exchange rates. This paper focuses on the effect of the exchange rate on employment in Canada. We find that appreciation of the Canadian dollar has significant effects on employment in manufacturing industries; such effects are mostly associated with the export-weighted exchange rate, but not t...

This paper examines the impact of US income and payroll taxes on the decision of wage-and-salary employees to become self-employed. I exploit variations in the tax treatment of wage and self-employment income using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Results show that differential taxation has significant effects on the probability of making a transition into self-employment. Reducing an indivi...

V.1 A high rate of labour-absorbing growth ...................................................................... 2 V.2 Promoting the self-employment of the poor by converting them into productive entrepreneurs............................................................................................. 4 V.3 Increasing the productivity of the poor workers both in wage employment and in self-emp...

The study examines the dynamic interrelationships among school enrolment rates and rate of employment (via unemployment rates) in Nigeria. employed Autoregressive estimates an unrestricted VAR approach to analyze these relationships. lends credence new-growth theory (i.e. endogenous models) that more investments human capital, through education especially at higher levels, will allow capital ev...

This paper characterizes the optimal redistributive tax schedule in a matching unemployment framework where (voluntary) nonparticipation and (involuntary) unemployment are endogenous. The optimal employment tax rate is given by an inverse employment elasticity rule. This rule depends on the global response of the employment rate, which depends not only on the participation (labor supply) respon...