objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

associated with it In particular we distinguish between employment hours and effort per worker and allow for adjustment costs … associated with employment changes We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …-logarithmic form and derive an estimable system of Euler equations for inventories and employment with implied cross …

of labor market programs on youth employment. We find that the slump in the 1990s has been associated with dramatic … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … for labor by skill attributable to technological innovation. The employment crisis has been met by an unprecedented …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

putty-clay model is also consistent with the small short-run employment effects of minimum wage hikes commonly found in … empirical work. However, unlike monopsony-based explanations for small short-run employment effects, the model implies that the …

of the past is that the outcome, in terms of growth, distribution, and employment, depends on how a country remains in …

employment and on the way employment gains and losses are distributed across firms, industries, national economies and components … of the labour force. This paper assesses the employment impact of offshoring, in five European countries (Germany, Spain … with this variety of employment outcomes, the empirical evidence suggests that offshoring activities are mainly driven by a …

The Swedish employment rate is high in an international comparison and has been rising during recent decades. This … survey in this report suggests that the main drivers of the high and rising Swedish employment rates can be found in policies …

such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find that the low income (high … turn, the high income (low employment) ones are more sensitive to the wage-productivity gap, and thus to the strategy that …