misallocation. The fall in labour productivity is therefore likely to reverse if demand improves - e.g. through stronger monetary or …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

popular with voters - but even most economists now agree that they have little or no negative effect on employment. Big … increases in minimum wages will test the view that negative effects on employment must eventually kick in. …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is …

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … offshoring has no effect on native employment in the aggregate, while the effect of immigration on native employment is positive …. This hints at the presence of a "productivity effect" whereby offshoring and immigration improve industry efficiency …

affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …