contributes to the decline in the gender employment gap but increases the race and ethnicity employment gap. This finding follows …-collar jobs. Despite their predominance in the manufacturing sector, the labor market impacts of robots are not confined to these …

This paper examines if active labor market programs help unemployed job seekers find jobs using a novel random … employment rates by 25% two years after initial job loss. This finding contrasts with the conclusion reached by ordinary least … squares (OLS), which suffers from a negative bias due to selection on unobservables. The employment effects are driven by job …

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …

This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …

-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …

sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

abolished the dependence of unemployment insurance benefits on the elapsed unemployment duration and simultaneously introduced … unemployment duration is positive and significant. Neglecting selectivity leads to an underestimation of the effects in absolute …

The paper elaborates on the employment intensity of growth. Previous evidence regarding this question is surveyed …. Empirical results concerning Europe and selected other industrial countries reveal that the cyclical link between unemployment … that the employment intensity of growth is influenced by the country's wage setting process, the share of the service …