countries where “decent” jobs are less prevalent and ii) workers in many occupations are increasingly subject to risks of … automation further compound the challenge of job creation, which is already quite sizable in historical perspective. Failure to …

(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value … harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are …

for over four decades in Spain. We calculate an implicit tax rate on remaining in employment for an additional year and … examine its correlation with employment rates for older workers. The results suggest that financial incentives play a role in …

Using administrative employment data from the state of Washington, we use short-duration longitudinal panels to study …

new administrative dataset which links individual employment and entrepreneur tax records to TransUnion credit reports …, individuals flow into self-employment. New entrants earn more, borrow significantly using unsecured and secured consumer credit … formal sector employment opportunities …

on the employment and wages of both central-office workers and manufacturing plant employees. We find that central … offices that changed owners between 1977 and 1982 had substantially lower -- about 16% lower -- employment growth during that …&D employment.) In contrast, employment growth in production establishments changing owners was only 5% lower than it was in …

In this paper, we study the effects of FDI on domestic employment by examining the data of Taiwan's manufacturing … competitiveness. The expanded domestic output leads to more employment at home (output effect). The net effect of FDI on domestic … employment is a combination of substitution and output effects. For Taiwan, the net effect is positive in most cases but it …

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …