difference-in-differences model that compares employment rates across education type and age. An initial employment advantage of …

study whether changes in housing prices affect self-employment entry …

-owned businesses. The staggered introduction of these set-aside programs is used to estimate their impacts on the self-employment and … employment rates of African-American men. Black business ownership rates increased significantly after program initiation, with … the black-white gap falling three percentage points. The evidence that the racial gap in employment also fell is less …

this paper, we examine how inflation rates in two small open economies, namely Hong Kong and Singapore, interact with those … model is used to study the inflation dynamics. It is found that Hong Kong and Singapore inflation rates, but not the U ….S. one, respond to the error correction term. Compared with Singapore, the Hong Kong inflation rate is more responsive to U …

transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics …, measured in childhood, differentially predict the likelihood of employment for adult Norwegian men and women. Drawing on … theories pertaining to the importance of information, skills and gender norms transfer, our empirical analysis demonstrates …

In this paper we analyse the short- and long-run relationship between employment growth, inflation and output growth in … causality tests. The empirical results strongly support the existence of a single cointegrating relationship between employment … growth, inflation and output growth with bidirectional causality between employment growth and inflation as well as output …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

performance. Our analysis has two special features. First, apart from the two labour market states – employment and unemployment … that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in …

We study the persistence of the gender unemployment gap in the Italian regions in the 1992-2009 period. Results from … unit-root tests analysis with structural break suggest that the process of gender catching-up in the unemployment rates is …

-level exposure to mixed-gender (versus same-sex) peers. We find robust evidence that pupils in single-sex schools outperform their …-level covariates. Focusing on switching schools, we find that the conversion of the pupil gender type from single-sex to coed leads to … boys, the negative effect is largely driven by exposure to mixed-gender peers at school-level, it is class-level exposure …