race/ethnicity and gender into account. We contrast policy scenarios and show the potential impact that closing the gaps in … equalization of participation rates for individuals with similar characteristics. Closing gender gaps within ethno-racial groups …

Temporary-help jobs offer rapid entry into paid employment, but they are typically brief and it is unknown whether they … foster longer term employment. We utilize the unique structure of Detroit's welfare-to- work program to identify the effect … diminish subsequent earnings and employment outcomes among participants. In contrast, job placements with direct-hire employers …

Previous research finds that the greater geographic mobility of foreign than native-born workers following economic …

employment options. We expect differences in the returns to education between these groups due to different levels of control …

: import tariffs on foreign goods neither raised nor lowered US employment in newly-protected sectors; retaliatory tariffs had … clear negative employment impacts, primarily in agriculture; and these harms were only partly mitigated by compensatory US …

' exposure to labor-augmenting and labor-automating innovations. We find, first, that the majority of current employment is in …

Macro-level changes can have substantial effects on the distribution of resources at the household level. While it is … and predict the effects of output shocks at a disaggregated level. The predicted employment effects are then transposed to … household-level micro data, in order to analyze the incidence of rising unemployment and reduced working hours on poverty and …