anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non-employment …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … with their relatively high wages raise the question of how they are successfully absorbed into the labor market. We present …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

in employment and earnings. Adult men had no gains, and their earnings barely changed even in areas with unemployment … rates below 4 percent. Youths have higher earnings and employment in low crime states and poorer labor market outcomes in …

The employment and earnings effects of the minimum wage are estimated by parameterizing an hypothesized relationship … between underlying market employment and wage relationships versus observed wage and employment distributions in the presence … of a legislated minimum. If there had been no minimum during the 1973-78 period, we estimate that employment among out …

training programs in the United States. Even with the aid of a randomized experiment, the impact of a training program on wages … are only observed for those who are employed, and employment status itself may be affected by the training program. This … that the program raised wages, consistent with the notion that the Job Corps raises earnings by increasing human capital …

, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study examines whether employment by high school … of specifications and suggest that employment increases net investments in human capital and facilitates the school- to …

This paper examines the effects of cocaine and marijuana use on the wages of a sample of young adults drawn from the … rather surprising results suggest that for this sample, increased use of marijuana or cocaine is associated with higher wages … observed positive relationship between drug use and wages. The results from this analysis do not support such a hypothesis …