Survey of Newborns in the 21st Century in Japan. We use a regression discontinuity design and find that the reduction of CB … effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from …

This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited … data, we find a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on female employment of this particular piece …

effect of employment density on workers' wages increases in the level of regional aggregation, explained by larger …

In this paper we study the dynamics of local employment growth in West Germany from 1980 to 2001. Using dynamic panel … local industries. Diversity has a positive effect on employment growth in the short run, which is stronger in manufacturing … manufacturing. Additionally, we look at the impact of firm size and regional wages on local employment growth …

from the employment registry of a transition economy (Poland), encompassing nine years of monthly data (from 2000 to 2008 …

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or … relaxing the equity-efficiency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity …

data between 1980 and 2010. We report evidence of significant spatial variations in education employment shares and in the … of labour market polarization, as they have resulted in faster employment growth in high skill occupations, but also in a …

economies. The relationship between demographic ageing and employment outcomes is even more worrying once the relationship is …