Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …

various performance indicators (unemployment, long-term unemployment, employment, activity rate). Our results confirm that … high taxes increase unemployment, while active labour market policies tend to reduce it. We also show that stricter … employment protection, higher taxes and larger economic burden represented by the minimum wage decrease employment and activity …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

quantitative importance of fiscal foresight. We investigate whether JCTCs affect employment growth before, at, and after the time … difference-in-difference regression framework applied to monthly panel data on employment, the JCTC effective and legislative …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

By international standards, unemployment in Sweden remained remarkably low throughout the 1970s and the 1980s. In the … early 1990s, however, the unemployment rate skyrocketed and hit double-digit levels. Unemployment remained high for several … the rise and fall of unemployment. It is argued that the steep rise in unemployment was mainly the result of a series of …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect … dominates job destruction. We also show that employment may follow a non-monotonic pattern of adjustment to successive …

We use a unique dataset to estimate the impact of a large credit supply shock on employment in Spain. We exploit marked … credit more than other banks. We compare employment changes from 2006 to 2010 at firms heavily indebted to weak banks before … the crisis and the rest. Our estimates imply that these firms suffered an additional employment drop between 3 and 13 …