This study uses longitudinal data on a cohort of individuals exiting prison in North Carolina to examine the relationship between post-release employment and subsequent criminal justice contact. Individuals who found employment shortly after exiting prison in 2016 were significantly less likely...

For the past 15 years, the rural employment guarantee scheme has been providing employment to rural households when there is a demand. In practice, the demand for MGNREGS employment will not arise uniformly throughout the year. This article aims at analysing the households’ dependency on...

Recently, how to enhance the employability of the workforce and the quality of the environment becomes the focus of attention from all sectors of society in China. Providing diversified jobs for workers and achieving green urban development are important goals of China's new-type urbanization...

The share of contract workers, i.e., the workers employed through contractors, as against the workers directly employed by factories, out of all workers employed in India’s organized manufacturing has increased significantly over the last three decades, from 14 per cent in 1989-90 to 38 per...

This paper examines the association between employer concentration and labor outcomes (labor force participation and employment). It uses restricted data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Longitudinal Business Database to estimate, at the county level, to what extent more concentrated labor...

We document the presence of asymmetric business cycles in both regular and contract labour markets in India, investigate the role of nominal wage rigidities in accounting for these asymmetries, and study optimal inflation policy in such a milieu. Using data from Annual Survey of Industries, we...

With an ever-aging population, the need for better Long Term Care (LTC) solutions is imminent. However, does a wide LTC coverage change the labor force participation of covered seniors and their caregivers? This paper is the first to answer this question by exploiting the launch of a...

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...

There have been dramatic changes in the patterns of work among people in their 50s and 60s over the last 50 years. The gradual increases in employment since the mid-1990s are generally welcome. A longer working life boosts household incomes, as people are reliant on their wages and salaries for...