. There has been a dramatic expansion of self-employment in the Canadian economy over the 1987 to 1998 period. In addition, a … sector. In contrast, the growth in the net income of the self-employment group in the United States has outpaced overall … Canada and the United States in the 1990s can be attributed to the greater growth of self-employment in Canada and the poorer …

States enjoying strong growth in both productivity and the employment rate while many European countries experiencing limited … employment growth. …

This paper investigates the determinants of the service sector employment share in the EU-15, for the aggregate service … the share of service-related jobs in total employment. Although converging in all European countries, a significant gap in … achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may have hindered …

estimates obtained from vector auto regression (VAR) models consisting of hours, employment, output and wages in the …The intensity of use of overtime hours has risen markedly since the early 1990s. Recent research suggests that there … given increase or decrease in hours - measured here as average weekly hours of overtime work - affects the subsequent …

returned to previous levels within a few quarters. Consequently, the total loss in employment caused by the rise in mismatch … preferences amid strong labor demand are more prominent explanations for the persistent employment shortfall vis-à-vis pre …

' exposure to labor-augmenting and labor-automating innovations. We find, first, that the majority of current employment is in …