higher employment elasticities for female workers, with the strongest impact in places where public childcare supply is …. This paper argues that accounting for differential employment responses significantly alters optimal place-based policy …

Employment responses to the COVID-19 crisis differed widely across German local labour markets at the beginning of the …

wage returns to age. We also obtain suggestive evidence that relative employment rates of older workers decline when mean …

employment-population ratio has not yet recovered resulting in persistent local joblessness. In contrast, the female working …-age population experienced a strong catch-up in employment and participation. I find that at the aggregate level, a substantial … loss of male jobs over the decades. As a consequence, the male-female employment gap shrinks over time. …