on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

This paper studies the employment effects of the influx of millions of German expellees to West Germany after World War … West Germany. We find a substantial negative effect of expellee inflows on native employment. The effect was, however …

This paper examines the interactions between employment and training policies. Their effectiveness in stimulating … income and employment may be interdependent for various important reasons. For example, the more employment policies … stimulate the employment rate, the greater the length of time over which workers use the human capital generated by training …

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare …. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the … reduce the incentive to become skilled. So they increase the low-skilled labor force which faces a relatively low employment …

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. …

institution short-time work) and the discretionary component (i.e., rule changes) stabilize employment over the business cycle. In …

incentives for retaining employment, incentives for creating employment, incentives for seeking and keeping a job, incentives for …

Using data for German and Swedish multinational enterprises (MNEs), this paper assesses international employment … country, affiliate employment tends to substitute for employment at the parent firm. At the margin, substitutability is the … strongest with respect to affiliate employment in Western Europe. A one percent larger wage gap between Germany and locations in …