This paper studies the employment and productivity implications of new labor regulations in China. These new … restrictions are intended to protect workers' employment conditions by, among other things, increasing firing costs and increasing … employment, slightly increase labor reallocation and reduce exit. The estimated elasticity of labor demand is about unity so that …

to cyclical changes in middle-skill employment? We find that middle-skill occupations have traditionally been more …. Unemployed middle-skill workers also appear to have few attractive or feasible employment alternatives outside of their skill … middle-skill employment fluctuations should include industry-level employment effects and a labor force participation margin …

larger effects. H-1Bs substantially crowd out employment of other workers. We find some evidence that additional H-1Bs lead …

In search and bargaining models, the effect of higher wages on employment is determined by the elasticity of the job … creation curve and a standard demand curve is that the former represents a relationship between wages and employment rates …, while the latter represents a relationship between wages and employment levels. Although this distinction is quite simple …

nation-wide manufacturing shocks to develop an instrument for changing investment opportunities, and examine employment …

employment. We argue that the minimum wage will impact employment over time, through changes in growth rather than an immediate … drop in relative employment levels. We conduct simulations showing that commonly-used specifications in this literature … panels of administrative employment data, we find that the minimum wage reduces job growth over a period of several years …

We juxtapose the effects of trade and technology on employment in U.S. local labor markets between 1990 and 2007. Labor … employment, particularly in manufacturing and among non-college workers. Labor markets susceptible to computerization due to … nonmanufacturing but no net employment decline. Trade impacts rise in the 2000s as imports accelerate, while the effect of technology …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …