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 …

-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … indication of adverse effects for (the three) other employment outcomes identified here. Moreover, with the possible exception of …

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings … overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on Palestinian employment and earnings are taken from the … Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Palestinian employment rates in Israel and mean monthly earnings, regardless of work location …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

and the impacts of labour tax progression on domestic wage setting and employment. The wage elasticity of domestic labour … employment and a negative effect on outsourcing. …

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

employment rate of these partners, which are in majority women. The Dutch Labour Force Survey 1992-2003 shows that the growth of … the employment rate of married women after 2001 was larger than for a comparable group of single women. A statistical … analysis using a model that accounts for measurement error shows that the growth of the employment rates of women without young …