increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

responsible for the slow recovery of employment, though not for the initial drop. Monetary policy shocks predict an inflation rate … 0.5% below average. Government expenditure innovations do not contribute much either to inflation or to employment …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

groups. Using a local labor markets design, we estimate that manufacturing decline significantly reduced employment between … 2000 and 2006, while local housing booms increased employment by roughly the same magnitude. The effects of manufacturing … decline persist through 2012, but we find no persistent employment effects of local housing booms, likely because housing …

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 …

. Using official county-level voting data and a variety of OLS and TSLS models, we find that increases in wages and employment … increases in employment lead to less use of the media and reduced political knowledge, and present associational individual …

employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective … of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how to enhance poverty reduction through increased employment and …