domestic firm-level aggregate employment, output, wages and productivity. Consistent with heterogenous firm models where …-offshorer. After initiating offshoring, firms experience large declines in employment (46.2 per cent), output (38.5 per cent) and … capital (28.8 per cent) relative to their industry peers. We find no significant change in average wages or in total factor …

Shifts in the long-run rate of productivity growth--such as those experienced by the U.S. economy in the 1970s and 1990 … forecasts of long-run productivity growth during the 1970s and 1990s and examine in the context of a dynamic general equilibrium … model the consequences of gradual real-time learning on the responses to shifts in the long-run productivity growth rate. We …

The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a … slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small …

data from the 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances, we model the firm's decision to use alternative employment … establishment-level studies that have examined the use of these types of employment arrangements. However, many of these previous …) firms may be using alternative employment arrangements (AEA) in an attempt to generate cost savings by substituting standard …

unemployment and underemployment, employment, workweeks, wages, vacancies, hiring, layoffs, quits, and surveys of consumers' and … payroll employment and the unemployment rate. Other influential indicators include the insured unemployment rate, consumers …

We study the existence and economic significance of bank lending channels that affect employment in U.S. manufacturing … access to bank loans matters more for employment than firm access to local bank loans. Our results suggest that, over the … about a quarter of the drop in employment in the manufacturing sector. In addition, a decrease in the availability of home …

have a large impact on employees. There are sharp and substantial employment cuts following loan covenant violations, when … creditors exercise their ex post control rights. The negative impact of violations on employment is stronger for firms that face … more severe agency and financing frictions and those whose employees have weaker bargaining power. Employment cuts …

At a macroeconomic level, infrastructure and productivity are positively correlated in the United States and other … infrastructure to productivity, or the reverse. This paper focuses on roads, and finds that vehicle-intensive industries benefit … disproportionately from road-building: when road growth changes, productivity growth changes more in industries that are more vehicle …