compare their job prospects to those of their counterparts in other low-income regions. We show that employment rates are …

. Moreover, they have also experienced a deterioration in their employment and earnings over the last three decades. In this … paper, we document this evolution and adopt a longitudinal approach to show that employment and earnings losses suffered by …

Despite the long economic expansion, employment among young men is lower today than it was in the late 1960s. This … current wage matters) is rejected in favor of one that includes forward-looking considerations, embodied in returns to …

throughout the wage distribution. For the different demographic groups analyzed, the statistically significant estimated average … impacts in the lower part of their wage distribution, while Whites likely experience larger impacts in the upper part of their …

We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …

We analyze the effect of employer-sponsored health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages in the US using a … estimate the causal effects of rising health insurance premiums on employment and annual wages. We find that a 10% increase in … premiums reduces employment by 1.1 percentage points, and leads to a statistically insignificant reduction of annual wages …

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E … aggregate trends, employment in initially middle-skill-intensive labor markets hollowed-out between 1980 and 2005. Employment … employment growth in lower-tail occupations. For college workers, employment losses at the middle were offset in roughly equal …

This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The … average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant … approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than it rises in the case of growing plants. Moreover, the average wage …

. Furthermore, access to the pill and abortion influenced child care employment differently across settings, with center … household providers absorbing more low-skilled women, for whom child care may have remained a viable employment destination … service quality, child development, and parental employment …

wage growth. This paper analyzes the sources of the changing shape of the lower-tail of the U.S. wage and employment …After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings …