Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …

model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E …

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …

We compare the relation between foreign affiliate production and parent employment in U.S. manufacturing multinationals … associated with more employment, particularly blue-collar employment, in the parent companies. The small Swedish-owned production … that does take place in developing countries is also associated with more white-collar employment at home. The effects on …

People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a … findings is consistent with the idea that disability discrimination continues to impede employment prospects of people with …

European countries exhibit significant differences in employment rates of adult males. Differences in labor … migrants to isolate the effect of culturally transmitted labor-leisure preferences on individual employment rates. If migrants … about 24% of the top-bottom variation in employment rates across European countries …