Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, and …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

were unusually scarce. Our results also help explain prior findings that FPUC did not decrease employment …

-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers … -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater rate than most countries. The leading explanation for this phenomenon … is that the U.S. labor market has flexible wages and employment practices, whereas European labor markets are rigid. The …

the impact of COVID-19 on older adults age 50-70. We find that employment for this group dropped substantially more than … would have been predicted prior to the pandemic: employment for 50-61 year olds was 5.7 pp (8.3 percent) lower, while … employment for 62-70-year- olds was 3.9 pp (10.7 percent) lower. For people aged 50-61, unemployment and labor force exits due to …

unclear what impact the associated economic recession and subsequent recovery have had on disability employment. Objective: We … evaluated employment trends for people with and without disabilities over the course of the COVID-19 recession and subsequent … models were used to estimate percent changes in employment-to-population ratios and identify differences between disabled and …

There has been a dramatic rise in disability employment in the US since the pandemic, a pattern mirrored in other … microdata, we find the increase in disability employment is concentrated in occupations with high levels of working from home … increases full-time employment by 1.1% for individuals with a physical disability. A back of the envelope calculation reveals …