The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …

This Paper studies the impact of wage growth on the evolution of employment in an intertemporal general …-state equilibria in which productivity grows at the same rate as wages, the real interest rate is below the laissez-faire level, and so … is the common growth rate of consumption, demand, and output. In these steady-state equilibria employment contracts at a …

labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …

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 … employment of low earners can explain 80% of the rise in relative female wages. There is no evidence that reduction in child care …

In 1986, Congress attempted to reduce the incentives for unauthorized migration by eliminating U.S. employment … opportunities for unauthorized workers. To recognize the commitment that many unauthorized workers had already made to the U … oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages. The reason given is that an increase in insider wages gives rise to a … conventional answer. We show that, in the context of a stochastic model of the labor market, an increase in insider wages promotes …

dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …