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 …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data for young people in France and the United States to investigate … the effect of intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-…-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition … employment effects in general, and very strong effects on workers employed at the minimum wage. In the French case, albeit …

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

Standard economic models suggest that adverse demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional … United States, where real wages of less-skilled workers fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded vigorously, and … Europe, where real wages of less-skilled workers were constant and employment was stagnant. We find little support for this …

Standard economic models suggest that adverse demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional … employment expanded vigorously, and Europe, where real wages of less-skilled workers were constant and employment was stagnant …. We test this hypothesis by comparing recent changes in wage and employment rates for different age and education groups …

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 …

largely above its pre-recession level. We find two main explanations for these differences. First, the large employment swings … consistent with a conventional Okun relationship linking GDP growth to employment performance. In particular, relative to pre …