We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …

product and in labour markets, in the determination of sectoral employment growth in Italy during the last forty years (1951 … markets were quantitatively more important than changes in product markets in the determination of sectoral employment growth … remained constant after 1973, our simulations suggest that, on average, industrial and service employment would have been …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

We study the impact of employment quota on firms' demand for disabled workers. The Austrian Disabled Persons Employment …-compliance tax generates strong employment effects for low-wage firms and weak effects for high-wage firms. We also find that growing …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

This Paper studies the impact of local economic structure on local sectoral employment growth. Local employment growth … to 36 manufacturing, trade and service sectors and 341 French ‘Employment Areas’ in every year between 1984 and 1993 …