During the 1980's employment grew rapidly in the United States, prompting many analysts to label the U.S. economy the … great American job machine. But while aggregate employment increased rapidly during the 1980's, many did not benefit from … low-paying services sector, the growth in part-time and temporary employment, and the general decline in real wages among …

elasticity of employment equals -0.76, showing that controlling for the welfare choice does not reduce the price elasticity of … employment found in other studies. Simulations based on these data from 1994 show that welfare recipiency is reduced by … approximately one-third and employment increased by approximately 50 percent when child care expenditures are subsidized by 50 …

This testimony describes the results of a study of the Employment Service (ES) conducted by Dr. Jacobson and Prof …

The Targeted Jobs Tax Credit (TJTC) is intended to stimulate the employment of individuals who are members of certain … workers. This intervention into the labor market has direct and indirect earnings and employment consequences for both … from the Unemployment Insurance system and the Employment Service Automated Reporting System (ESARS). The results indicate …

political spectrum. This paper examines the development of employment policy in the twentieth century by viewing the interplay …, and the employment service. Some attention is also given to governmental policy that influences the geographic mobility of …

This paper examines the relationship between the cost of child care and the employment behavior of married and single … market wage and the hourly price of child care on employment and hours of paid child care. The most fundamental result …

-equalizing migration. Instead, we find steadily growing effects of local shocks on regional formal sector wages and employment for 20 years … shift out of the formal tradable sector and into the formal nontradable sector. Non-employment strongly increases in harder …-hit regions in the medium run, but in the longer run, non-employed workers eventually find re-employment in the informal sector …