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 …

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

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 …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …

We document that fluctuations in part-time employment play a major role in movements in hours per worker, especially … margin based on a stock-flow framework. The evolution of part-time employment is predominantly explained by cyclical changes … in transitions between full-time and part-time employment, which occur overwhelmingly at the same employer and entail …

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in … unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting … aggregate measures of unemployment responses to temporary and permanent shocks. These measures are temporal (depicting how long …

Measuring employment and unemployment is essential for economic policy. Internationally agreed measures (e.g. headcount … employment and unemployment rates based on standard definitions) enhance comparability across time and space, but changes in real …

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

marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …