This paper examines inter-industry patterns of the employment of older workers over the last 20 years to understand where employment opportunities have grown the most. The underlying premise is that firms strategically align their age mix depending on production function and labor cost...

We investigate the impact of the 2005 UK Disability Discrimination Act on the educational and employment outcomes of older children, using UK Labour Force Survey data. The Act outlined new legal requirements on employers and qualification awarding bodies to make provisions for people with...

We examine the effects of working for a Temporary Help Agency (THA) on transition rates for low-skilled temps to alternative states, using Spanish administrative data. Our analysis, based on the estimation of competing risk discrete-time duration models with multiple spells, reveals the...

There are over 20 million adult women with disabilities in the noninstitutionalized population in the United States. However, the career options and trajectories of women with disabilities are under-researched. Disabled women have the lowest employment rate among disabled and non-disabled men...

To understand gender inequalities in labor market outcomes of seemingly homogeneous low-skilled workers in developing countries, we build and estimate a search model of the labor market in which agents decide their labor market participation, employment type, and migration status. The model...

We evaluate the effect of an increase in low-skilled immigration in Korean municipalities on the internal migration of natives and several economic outcomes. Using Korean data, we distinguish between natives moving for work-related and non-work-related reasons. Using a change in immigration...

Addressing growing income inequality in the United States should begin with the plight of low-skilled workers, many subject to below subsistence income and stressful and dangerous working conditions. Antitrust cannot offer a comprehensive solution to this problem. It can, however, meaningfully...