increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the … wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment benefits in the United States, but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our …

This paper provides quasi-experimental estimates of the causal effect of long-term unemployment on wages. Using … standard job search theory, the paper derives and tests conditions on reemployment wages under which Unemployment Insurance (UI …) extensions can be used as instrumental variables (IV) for unemployment duration. Using a regression discontinuity design, the …

contributes to the U.S.'s comparative success in creating jobs for its population, the slow growth in employment in many European …-country differences in employment and population growth. This section finds that the U.S. has managed to absorb added workers … -- especially female workers -- into employment at a greater rate than most countries. The leading explanation for this phenomenon …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …

There has been little rigorous evaluation of immigration barriers intended to improve domestic terms of employment by … that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …