. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …

and Wages (QCEW) data on earnings and employment, the earnings of an average worker in Florida will increase as much as …) econometric approach that identifies the effects of shocks resulting from hurricanes. Based on the Quarterly Census of Employment … counties; however, this is coupled with a slower growth rate in employment. Powerful hurricanes have greater effects than their …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset …

aggregate employment change in African manufacturing. The nature and magnitude of gross job flows are examined using a unique … limited role in terms of contributing to manufacturing employment through post-entry expansion. …

-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate … cities from adverse economic shocks. We test this argument by examining how establishment-level employment responses to …

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand … regional wages on employment growth is significantly negative. There is some variation of this effect across sectors, but in no … case we find support for the claim that an exogenous wage increase leads to higher employment growth. …

employment in construction of a little over 25 per cent. …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

France posted remarkable gains in employment in the second half of the 1990s, suggesting that, beyond cyclical factors … between real wages and unemployment has improved significantly in France in the second half of the 1990s. Further calculations …

decisions as well as the prevailing wages in these two employment markets. A semi-parametric random effects estimator and the …-time employment, and child care payment, and the linear equations of the price of child care, and part-time and full-time wages in a …This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment and child care payment decisions of single mothers in the …