Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …

. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh … gainful employment arm, in which work is offered and individuals are paid weekly the approximate equivalent of that in the … cash arm. We find that employment confers significant psychosocial benefits beyond the impacts of cash alone, with effects …

.e., the participation cycle, which are important for the implementation of the maximum employment mandate. We show that these … pressures on employment from participation are two-thirds that of unemployment. Moreover, the participation cycle delays the … recovery in employment because it lags the unemployment cycle. It also amplifies the unevenness of the impact of recessions …

filled jobs. Under counterfactual policies that resemble traditional employment regulation, buyers post fewer online jobs and … results suggest that neither online or offline knowledge workers will benefit from applying traditional employment regulation …

attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …