We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product …

providing knowledge about the nature of (un)employment and current policy measures, a number policy measures are proposed to …

. Concomitantly, employment falls between 1½ and 5% depending on hurricane strength. On the other hand, the effects of hurricanes on … better examine the specific shocks, we also observe sectoral employment shifts. Finally, we conduct a time-series analysis … and find that over time, there is somewhat of a cobweb with earnings and employment rising and falling each quarter over a …

differences still remain in terms of both employment and economic inactivity rates, which may now better reflect relative labour … decomposes regional differences in employment, economic inactivity and unemployment into components due to either structural or … accounting for regional differences in both employment and economic inactivity rates. …

health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …

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