that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a result, labor moves to the … intersectoral labor mobility, unemployment in the offshoring sector can rise, with an unambiguous unemployment reduction in the non-offshoring …

decreases. Next we allow for offshoring of unskilled jobs in our model, and we find that, as a result, it becomes more likely … that the fair-wage constraint binds. Offshoring of unskilled jobs always leads to an increase in skilled wage, a decrease … adverse impact of offshoring on unskilled unemployment. The unskilled wage can increase or decrease as a result of offshoring. …