This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor … market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …

This chapter reviews the literature on employment and labor law. The goal of the review is to understand why every … theory of contract. Finally, the empirical literature on employment and labor law is reviewed. I conclude that many aspects … contrast, empirical labor market research focuses upon ex post match efficiency in the face of an exogenous productivity shock …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … shows that, at least for the time being, unemployment increases have been contained in countries with comparatively strong …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and … Wascher as to the role of labor market institutions and policies, we do not observe the same patterns in the institutional …

The recent financial crises, alongside a dramatic rise in unemployment on both sides of the Atlantic, suggest that … financial shocks do translate into the labor markets. In this paper we first document that financial recessions amplify labor … shocks to job destruction, presenting and solving a simple model of labor market search and endogenous finance. While finance …

inflation and unemployment differentials. Second, we find that asymmetries in labor market structures tend to increase the …How does the asymmetry of labor market institutions affect the adjustment of a currency union to shocks? To answer this … and real wage rigidities. In our analysis, we focus on the differentials in inflation and unemployment between countries …

repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files … likely to be employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment …

We use a repeated large-scale survey of households in the Nielsen Homescan panel to characterize how labor markets are … implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

packages of Hartz reforms in January 2004 and January 2005, respectively. The aim of these reforms was to accelerate labor … market flows and reduce unemployment duration. Without attempting to evaluate the specific components of these Hartz reforms … reforms indeed had an impact in making the labor market more dynamic and accelerating the matching process …