urban configurations then emerge depending on the competitiveness of the existing firms on the labour market. More jobs are …Cities are often viewed as places fostering employment. It is shown that the choice of a particular location within a … city is a key factor for the creation of jobs by a new firm. This question is addressed in the context of a standard urban …

lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female. The withdrawal from …

It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does … not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

Germany experienced an even deeper fall in GDP in the Great Recession than the United States, with little employment …, contributed to an employment shortfall equivalent to 40 percent of the missing employment decline in the recession. Another 20 …

good, sold on a competitive market, and face demand-induced price fluctuations. It is then shown that unemployment may … arise in equilibrium because of both uncertainty of product demand and job mismatch. Unemployment does not arise, however …, when the variance of the demand shock is small enough and/or the cost of mismatch is sufficiently low. Full employment …