, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

negative effect on the wage of the low-skilled at the bottom of the wage distribution. With lower returns from employment, the …. The findings provide evidence against the commonly used argument that wage flexibility improves the employment prospects …

.e. by differing probabilities of any employment? Across OECD countries there are large differences in the average level and … employment. The participation level is particularly important for inequality differences and there is persuasive evidence that … country attitudes to paid employment, particularly for women, differ significantly. This paper uses Luxembourg Income Study …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

In this paper, we estimate the difference in long-run after-tax and transfer income from employment and from non-employment … they were to be employed, relative to their disposable income in the absence of employment, and that the median gain would … the fewest number of households (43%) would gain from employment. The share of households that would have in increase in …

simultaneously specifies three time-use choices - paid work, childcare, and housework - and wage and employment equations for each …

We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …