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

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …

that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the … the number of hours worked per employee, has the smallest role. -- Hours of market work ; participation ; employment …

that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC … the EITC boosts employment and earnings for minority women, and coupling the EITC with a higher minimum wage appears to …

individual characteristics, preferences over working hours, job-search strategies, and employment histories. We find substantial … unemployed do not directly compete with employed job seekers. -- on-the-job search ; unemployment ; job competition ; employment …

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 …

In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared … the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they argue that black-white wage and employment gaps are smaller for … prejudice is quantitatively more important than skill differences to explain wage and employment gaps. In the final section of …