The majority of individuals released from prison face limited employment opportunities and do not successfully … randomized evaluations of employment-focused programs find increases in employment but little impact on recidivism. Recent …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … negative effect on employment. Contrary to the widely embraced "nothing works" doctrine, these findings demonstrate that time …

lines, may increase access to a wider array of job opportunities, potentially leading to increased rates of employment … from the system, before and after the system started to operate. We find large impacts on employment, hours worked and …

developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes … gains in employment and earnings per hour among women, and not for men, due to these investments. Most of the gains arise on … the extensive margin, with more women being employed, but employment does not appear to be of higher quality than that for …

lines, may increase access to a wider array of job opportunities, potentially leading to increased rates of employment … from the system, before and after the system started to operate. We find large impacts on employment, hours worked and …