Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- The Rationale for This Volume -- The Links Among Employment, Growth, and Poverty: A Brief Overview of Existing Work -- Toward an Integrated Framework and the Role of Labor Mobility -- Five Topics at the Frontier -- Summary and Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2 Employment in Low-Income Countries: Beyond Labor Market Segmentation? -- Introduction -- Dualism and Segmentation in the History of Economic Thought -- Improving Policy-Relevant Labor Market Models -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3 Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Economic Performance: A View from the Middle East and North Africa Region -- Introduction -- Informal Sector: An Antipoverty Strategy or an Engine of Growth? -- A Comparative Profile of the Informal Sector -- Why Do Bad Jobs and Informal Jobs Overlap? -- Conclusion: The Dilemma of the Informal Sector -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 4 Self-Employment: Engine of Growth or Self-Help Safety Net? -- Evidence Against Dynamism -- Two Groups of Microentrepreneurs -- Evidence that Incomes Can Be Increased -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 5 Poverty and Earnings Mobility in Three African Countries -- Introduction -- What Are Earnings in Alternative Jobs? -- How Mobile Are Individuals between Different Types of Jobs? -- What Has Been Learned, and What Do We Need to Know? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6 Firm Dynamics, Productivity, and Job Growth -- Introduction -- Job Flows: Data and Measurement -- Role of Employer Size and Age in Job Flows in the United States -- Job Flows in Advanced, Emerging, and Transition Economies -- Effects of Creative Destruction on Productivity -- Missing Pieces-Self-Employment and the Informal Sector -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Index -- Figures -- 4.1 Returns to Capital with Controls, All Industries -- 5.1 Age- and Tenure-Earnings Profiles -- 5.2 Individual Income Distributions by Occupation Category -- 5.3 Transition Matrices between "No Income" and "Income" -- 5.4 Transition Matrices between "No Income" and "Type of Income" -- 5.5 Transition Matrices between "Labor Force Status" and "Type of Income" -- 6.1 Job Flows by Employer Size -- 6.2 Job Flows by Employer Age -- 6.3 Job Flows by Employer Size and Age -- 6.4 Decomposition of Job Creation and Destruction by Continuing, Entering, and Exiting Firms, 1990s,Total Economy and Manufacturing -- 6.5 The Gap between Weighted and Unweighted Labor Productivity, 1990s -- 6.6 Comparisons of Employer and Nonemployer Business -- 6.7 Young Employers (0-3 years) with Prehistory as Nonemployers -- Tables -- 3.1 Informal Employment as Percentage of Nonagricultural Employment in Selected Developing Regions -- 3.2 Labor Force, Unemployment, and Labor Demand by Education Status in Egypt -- 3.3 Share of Nationals and Expatriates in the Labor Force of GCC Countries -- 3.4 Labor Force and Unemployment in the Diversified Economies -- 4.1A Probability of Being Self-Employed, Males -- 4.1B Probability of Being Self-Employed, Females -- 4.2 Multinomial Logit Results, Males -- 4.3A Effect of Treatments on Investment Levels, Total Nonland Capital -- 4.3B Effect of Treatments on Investment Levels, Inventory Levels -- 4.3C Effect of Treatments on Investment Levels, Revenues -- 4.3D Effect of Treatments on Investment Levels, Profits -- 5.1 Earnings by Occupation Category -- 5.2 Summary Statistics for Regression Sample -- 5.3 Earnings Functions -- 6.1 Average Job Flows in the 1990s, Overall and by Region, Total Economy -- 6.2 Analysis of Variance, Total Economy.