This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates … relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational …

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of … document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment advantage. By April …

has predictions for the employment effect of immigrants at the local level. The model predicts that if I look at the … employment (rather than wage) response by skill to immigration in a state, I can estimate the substitutability … for native labor. I also use a novel instrument based on demographic characteristics of total Central American migrants or …