results show that vocational qualifications at all levels can improve the employment chances of unqualified school leavers … acquired before employment is attained. There are also small effects on occupational mobility, but little impact on wages …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is …

This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal … data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road … network. These changes are constructed using data on employment for small geographical units, details of the main road network …

This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …

techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment …. We find that transitions in and out of employment for men are relatively independent of other transitions. In contrast …, there are strong links between female employment, having children and union formation. By undertaking a detailed micro …

dramatically and the employment rates of lone mothers have increased substantially. In addition to the federal reforms, state level …

study concentrates on participation or non-participation in employment, with non-participation defined broadly to include … difficulties, data from the British Household Panel Study are used to construct models of the probability of being in employment …, controlling for various constraints. Starting from the position that all non-employment is voluntary, possible constraints are …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …