OECD countries faced largely divergent employment rates during the last decades. But the whole bulk of the cross … account for cross-country variations in both the level and the dynamics of employment rates of demographic groups. Second, we …-national differences in family attitudes. Studying the correlation between employment rates and family attitudes, we then show that the …

employment is a one-way street. -- job creation ; job destruction ; accessions ; separations ; matched worker-firm data …

. Labour demand is expressed by its structural parameters, such as the elasticities of employment to output and factor prices …. Institutional variables include employment protection legislation, the structure of wage bargaining, measures describing the tax and … transfer system and active labour market policies. As cointegration between employment, output and factor prices is detected …

substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …

effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from …

transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …

and two-thirds of the additional hiring occurs within two months. The response of hiring from employment is twice as large … as the response of hiring from non-employment. Firms that are smaller, low-wage and fast-growing are associated with … employment, consistent with replacement hiring and the presence of vacancy chains. Growth in revenue and value added strongly …

wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …