this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous geographic assignment in Switzerland, within-canton variation in labor …Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that … restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test …

builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …

gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …

evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …

evolved over the last 50 years. Using data from the March CPS, the Census, and the ACS, we examine several employment and … earning outcomes. Hispanics have experienced sizable gains to employment: from a negative 2% prior to 1990 to a positive 4 … 30% with some improvement after 2000. Most of the employment gain is driven by those with less than a high school degree …

In this work, we test the employment impact of distinct types of innovative investments using a representative sample … significant employment effect. However, the job-creation impact of R&D expenditures becomes highly significant when the focus is …

Although the quantitative relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality is central for the dynamics … relationship between employment cyclicality and wage cyclicality at the establishment level. We use this micro-estimate as a …

While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for …, forecasters systematically underestimated the growth of domestic employment. Finally, we highlight that immigration was not only a … consequence of the "miracle", but also an important cause, as it created additional jobs in Switzerland by raising local demand …