We investigate the effects of Chinese import competition on transitions into and out of employment using comparable … increased probability that employed workers become unemployed and with a reduction in worker flows from unemployment to … employment. In countries with high levels of employment protection, incumbent workers are shielded against the risk of job loss …

account for women who select into employment due to having a college education, which we call college-induced selection into … employment (CISE). We find that women are, on average, more than 17 percentage points more likely to be employed due to having a …

margin, with domestic employment shifted from the newly offshoring firms in the middle of the productivity distribution to … labour across firms affects economy-wide unemployment. Offshoring reduces unemployment when it is confined to high …

frictional labor market with equilibrium unemployment due to costly matching, we demonstrate that under these same conditions … offshoring is also associated with rising employment. …

employment status. We use exogenous variation in compulsory schooling requirements and the build-up of new, academically more … longitudinal information, we also address the endogeneity of employment status. We find a positive effect of education on life …

Affirmative action to promote women's employment is a intensely debated policy. Do affirmative action policies attract …

transitions. Our results imply that robot adoption increased employment and reduced unemployment most in the European countries …

. Transitions from unemployment to employment at large firms are generally found to be more (pro-)cyclical. However, this stylised …Using administrative data on individual workers' employment history and firms, we investigate the cyclicality of worker … hire much more workers from unemployment than large firms, and that they do so at the very beginning of an economic …

be concentrated in increased employment to employment, and employment to unemployment transitions rather than longer …The past four decades have witnessed dramatic changes in the structure of employment. In particular, the rapid increase … in computational power has led to large-scale reductions in employment in jobs that can be described as intensive in …

-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … at the individual worker level, and find that trade had a stabilizing overall effect on employment relationships. …