Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves … splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a … transition rates: (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually …

Cross-country employment differences are concentrated among women, the youth, and older individuals. In this paper, we … document how worker flows between employment, unemployment, and out of the labor force vary by gender and age and contribute to … aggregate employment differences across a large panel of European countries. We then build a life-cycle Diamond …

that changes in hours per worker are driven by fluctuations in part-time employment, which are in turn explained by the …

that changes in hours per worker are driven by fluctuations in part-time employment, which are in turn explained by the …

Small Business Administration (SBA) loans have long been one of the most significant policy interventions in the U ….S. affecting firm behavior, but little is known about their outcomes. This paper estimates the effects on employment using a list … years of employment history and other variables. The results imply positive average effects on loan recipient employment of …

been to redress the sharp drops in employment and rises in unemployment in a way that fosters the creation of productive … associated rather with increased wages and employment. …

constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …We analyze linked databases on all Small Business Administration (SBA) loans, on all SBA lenders, and on all U ….S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

involuntary part-time work are mostly explained by its interaction with full-time employment, and since the Great Recession …, we show that the higher probability of regaining full-time employment is key to distinguish involuntary part-time work …