The economic convergence of American regions has greatly slowed, and rates of long-term non-employment have even been … diverging. Simultaneously, the rate of non-employment for working age men has nearly tripled over the last 50 years, generating …-based policies? We document that increases in labor demand appear to have greater impacts on employment in areas where not working …

model that allows for duration dependence in the exit rate from unemployment and for transitions between employment (E …

observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …

We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …

To understand the elasticity of employment to local labor demand shocks, we develop a quantitative general equilibrium … local employment elasticities differ substantially across U.S. counties and commuting zones in ways that are not well … around 3.3 percent and employment reallocations from -20 to 30 percent …

States and the United Kingdom, two countries with quite different public/private employment trends. The results indicate that … public and private sectors increase over the past decade. Variability in public sector employment and wages over time is …