harmed either employment or GDP. Even unemployment benefits do not have robustly negative effects … costly since about 1980, not through overall employment effects, but through the net human-capital cost of protecting senior …

unemployment over the last three decades. We find that while macroeconomic and demographic shocks and changing labor market … important factor explaining the shift in US relative unemployment. Our finding of the central importance of these interactions …, high employment is associated with low wage levels and high levels of wage inequality. These findings suggest that US …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and …

US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …

We document the consequences of losing a job across countries using a harmonized research design. Workers in Denmark … and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal … differences is that Southern European workers are less likely to find employment following displacement. Loss of employer …

-wage jobs in higher-earning industries and occupations not just by raising employment. Training in transferable and certifiable … skills (likely under-provided from poaching concerns) and reductions of employment barriers to high-wage sectors for non …