vanished, (ii) the relative volatility of employment has risen, and (iii) the relative (and absolute) volatility of the real …

Based on data from a cross section of U.S. metro areas, we show that public employment correlates negatively with … business cycle volatility, hinting at a stabilizing effect of public employment, while public wages correlate weakly and … generate wage-reducing and stabilizing effects of public employment. Without this mechanism, a search and matching model cannot …

We examine effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment losses across metropolitan area status and population size …. Non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas of all sizes experienced significant employment losses, but the impacts are much … larger in large metropolitan areas. Employment losses manifest as increased unemployment, labor force withdrawal, and …

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 …

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 …

Will the current employment crisis produce lost generations with permanently lower labour market attachment? Taking an … explicit cohort perspective and based on Danish data we do not find strong persistence in employment rates at the cohort level … assessments of persistence in aggregate employment rates. …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the …