distribution of incomes and employment, to consider explicit measures of well-being, which have been shown to depend on far more …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …

other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …