Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …

. Shifting from adjustments through the intensive to the extensive employment margin, the model introduces predetermined output …

wage rates, employment, and hours; labor market shocks; spouse characteristics and shocks; nonlabor income shocks; and …, fertility, and nonlabor income. We find that education and employment heterogeneity are key sources of the rise in the variance … with age and across birth cohorts. Hours shocks have grown in importance for women, and employment shocks have grown in …

results by replicating leading studies using Canadian data and relate our findings to important literatures on recall non-employment …

("likely non-employers"). Growth in applications for likely employers significantly leads total nonfarm employment growth and … model (DFM) to forecast nonfarm employment growth over a 12-month period using the PFEIs and the likely employers series … increasingly prevalent self-employment activity in the U.S. economy …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …