market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …

Rising obesity is not only a pressing global public health problem. There is also substantial evidence that obese … people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …

employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small … wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment and earnings effects and sometimes in large, positive effects on productivity and scale. Foreign ownership usually has …

This paper compares the employment status and earnings of veterans and nonveterans following their receipt of public … Outreach Program and Local Veterans Employment Representative). Employment rates of veterans after program receipt are … substantially lower than those for nonveterans. Meanwhile, average earnings are slightly higher, conditional on employment. These …

difference-in-differences models along with the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to estimate the causal effects of … mandated sick pay on employment and wages. We do not find much evidence that employment or wages were significantly affected by …. Employment decreases of 2 percent lie outside the 92 percent confidence interval and wage decreases of 3 percent lie outside the …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …