average, perform more routine tasks than men?tasks that are more prone to automation. To quantify the impact on jobs, we …

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …

The paper examines the employment and unemployment implications of permitting unemployed people to use part of their … unemployment benefits to provide employment vouchers to the firms that hire them. This opportunity to transfer unemployment … benefits into employment subsidies--“benefit transfers” for short--would help replace the unemployment trap by an incentive to …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … identify the causal impact of the program on formal employment, combining three large administrative datasets. This paper finds …

larger for others. The gap declines gradually over time. Less success in obtaining jobs with higher occupational autonomy … be unemployed. While participation fully converges after 20 years, immigrants always remain more likely to be unemployed …

that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to … absorb the surplus labor into quality jobs while adjusting to World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. This paper estimates … in the private sector and more labor-intensive service industries which have generated the most jobs in recent years …

employment, unemployment, and economic growth in OECD countries. The paper examines a number of facets of tax and welfare policy …

.S. manufacturing industry, and it finds evidence of asymmetry. Tight policy increases job destruction and reduces net employment …