The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

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

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 …

employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …

are currently making huge investments in electrification, with a view to achieving structural change. What does history … say about its impact on the structure of employment? We use U.S. Census data from 1910 to 1940 and measure electrification … industry level, electrification drove 15.7% of the decline in the share of agricultural employment and 28.4% of the increase in …

information about Chinese modern history during 1842-1955). Our results show that the inward FDI has a positive effect on … employment and such an effect is more pronounced in the regions with colonial influence than their counterparts. Further, we find … that the experience of Western colonization strengthens the positive effect of inward FDI on employment whereas the …