attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …

indicator for the labour intensity of output growth the employment threshold (the minimum growth rate of output necessary to … keep employment constant). We show for a sample of 17 OECD countries for the period 1971 to 2002 that the strictness of … employment protection raises the employment threshold in all econometric specifications. A higher wage bargaining coordination …

.S. labor force participation. However, there is a temporary increase in manufacturing employment as the United States is a net … importer of manufactured goods, which become costlier to obtain from abroad. By contrast, service and agricultural employment …

% for native females in dependent employment. Men move to self-employment, while women move to inactivity. The bulk of the …