Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …

economic crisis that began in 2008. It starts from the observation that the decline in employment and rise in unemployment in … further dualization of labour markets given that risks are allocated unequally across types of employment …

The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one …-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality … the dominance of natural resources in the Russian economy and employment concentration is closely linked …

This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different ECD labour markets in explaining … employment in the PS vs. the private sector, using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), in the light of different …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and …