estimate employment for three skill categories of blue collar workers. Employment elasticities are uniformly higher in the east …, and for unskilled labor. The former result contradicts union claims that wages had little relevance for east German job …

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to … this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 … would, on average, lift female employment by 1 percent, while increasing male employment by 0.6 percent. Consequently such a …

, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment in different occupations and the wages earned therein over 2001 …-2019. For recent generations of women, cohort effects indicate a higher likelihood of employment in low-paying manual jobs … relative to high-paying abstract jobs. However, cohort effects also underpin falling wages for post-1980 cohorts across all …

German wages have not increased very rapidly in the last decade despite strong employment growth and a 5 percentage …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …

. In contrast to the traditional view that agricultural employment outflows are largely driven by productivity differences …

in the probability of being employed within each occupation type and wages earned therein. Cohort plots and econometric … particularly significant for low-skill women: estimated cohort effects point to a fall in wages within each occupation as well as a …

government levels, and all careers, and should aim to achieve a real decrease in salaries and lower employment. In the medium … wage, and align public sector compensation to private wages in low-skilled professions …

-time employment appears to have weakened wage growth even in economies where headline unemployment rates are now at, or below, their …