The authors present a picture of how the effects of international trade on employment in U.S. manufacturing industries …

.16 and 0.34, respectively), and controlling for employment size further reduces them (to 0.07 and 0.28). We also exploit the …

We estimate the effects of privatization on firm-level wages and employment in four transition economies. Applied to … impacts on both employment and wages in all four countries. The negligible consequences of domestic privatization for workers … effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment outcome under foreign ownership results from a substantial …

timing and definition of employment, the roles of split-ups and mergers, and the relative magnitudes of rehiring and new … intensity, and labor productivity, but only weakly to job and worker turnover. Little evidence is found that firms' employment …

This volume presents a comprehensive look at how welfare reforms enacted in 1996 are affecting caseloads, employment …, earnings, and family well-being in rural areas. …

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

Recent studies have documented the growth of earnings inequality in the United States during the 1980s. In contrast to … earnings inequality over the same period. Between 1978 and 1988, a reduction in the dispersion of earnings among workers in the … bottom half of the earnings distribution led to a narrowing of the overall dispersion of earnings in Germany. Earnings …

data from seven waves of the Labour Force Survey, this paper documents that the real wages, average monthly earnings, and … total earnings of all employed domestic workers have risen since the regulations came into effect, while hours of work per … week and employment have fallen. Each of these outcomes can be linked econometrically to the arrival of the minimum wage …