's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … negative effect on employment. Contrary to the widely embraced 'nothing works' doctrine, these findings demonstrate that time …

flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry, employment, and output in the long run; and (2) flood events reduce … output in the short run while their impact on firm entry and employment is limited. Motivated by these findings, we construct … a spatial equilibrium model to characterize how flood risk shapes firms' location choices and workers' employment, which …

unemployment benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, and discuss implementation issues that may arise in similar …

unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and … institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially …

European unemployment is widely regarded as a problem of excessive real wages. This view as it is usually expressed … unemployed because it suggests that increases in employment will require reductions in the real wages of those currently employed …. The first part of this paper shows that increases in employment in Europe are likely to be associated with rising real …

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 …

. Government incentives to production may alleviate high unemployment in this economy, but at the cost of exacerbating sclerosis …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …