This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find that middle-skill occupations have traditionally been more …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill … middle-skill employment fluctuations should include industry-level employment effects and a labor force participation margin …

Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …

In search and bargaining models, the effect of higher wages on employment is determined by the elasticity of the job … creation curve and a standard demand curve is that the former represents a relationship between wages and employment rates …, while the latter represents a relationship between wages and employment levels. Although this distinction is quite simple …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

employment for teens and young adults, with elasticities in the range -0.1 to -0.2. In addition, we find that subminimum wages …

This paper analyzes employment and earnings differentials between Spanish speakers and English speakers in the United …

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of … reduction in 'firing costs' on movements in employment is assessed using manufacturing data by detailed industry for the period … industries with high and low sales variability, suggest they are not the result of the Employment Promotion Act. …

slowdown was largely offset by faster growth in employment per capita, leaving little difference in growth of output per capita … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment … between productivity and employment growth, and we show that there is a robust negative correlation between productivity and …