retraining for new employment in the expanding sector. The paper derives an optimal welfare policy which combines the design of …

the share of the outsourced workforce is not too large, this wage moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the … direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized firms as outsourcing costs fall. This does not … for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of these policy measures will become smaller as …

businesses boost the capital stock and the employment rate. No robust link between labour market regulation and MFP and capital … deepening could be established. But looser labour market regulation is found to go hand in hand with higher employment rates …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

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

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …

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 …

moments of the distributions of earnings, employment and wage shocks across individuals. Our main finding is that …