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 …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

-level jobs and submitted a CV showing that the candidate had attended high school in Australia. We find economically and … jobs in order to receive the same number of interviews. These differences vary systematically across groups, with Italians …

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …

labour force participation rates in the poorest households, minimum wage workers are most likely to be in middle …-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …

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 …