, when detectable, result from the even faster declines in employment. …

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 …

.S. manufacturing employment. Transfer benefits payments for unemployment, disability, retirement, and healthcare also rise sharply in …

We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through … adjustment costs that are highly unevenly distributed across workers according to their skill levels and conditions of employment …

agriculture in output and employment. The literature highlights two main engines behind this process of structural change: (i …

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 …