We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …

, or moving blacks to where jobs are located, is unlikely to make a major dent in black employment problems. We also …Blacks in the United States are poorer than whites and have much lower employment rates. "Place-based" policies seek to … racial dimension to spatial mismatch, and this "racial mismatch" suggests that simply creating more jobs where blacks live …

used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing labor costs for employers, and worker subsidies by raising the … hiring credits targeting employment of disadvantaged workers, and worker subsidies targeting low-income families. Hiring … credits targeting the disadvantaged have generally been regarded as ineffective at both creating jobs and increasing incomes …

have two findings to report. First, the data collected by CK appear to indicate greater employment variation over the eight …-month period between their surveys than do the payroll data. For example, in the full sample the standard deviation of employment … change in CK's data is three times as large as that in the payroll data. Second, estimates of the employment effect of the …

employment for teens and young adults, with elasticities in the range -0.1 to -0.2. In addition, we find that subminimum wages …

on minimum wage effects on employment, most of which comes from time-series data. Our estimates of the elasticities of … teen and young-adult employment-to-population ratios fall primarily in the range -0.1 to -0.2, similar to the consensus …

expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … that granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to China. We find that the China shock affects U.S. employment …

market to help assess whether faster transitions to stable employment relationships--such as those envisioned by advocates of …