status.Our empirical analysis suggests the following conclusions.1)Wages for work while not retired and for work while … to distinguish between wages paid to the partially retired and to the not retired causes a sizable exaggeration of the …

adult per year, a drop of 4.9 percentage points in the employment-population ratio, and a rise in the shadow economy equal … to 3.8 percent of GDP. It also leads to 10 to 30 percent lower employment and value added shares in (a) retail trade and …

This paper investigates movements in relative wages and wage inequality across thirteen of the world's major economies …. Focusing on wages received by full-time male workers, the investigation uncovers several empirical regularities: (1) Most … 1980s. (2) Since the early to late 19705, the advanced economies show large and persistent increases in the wages of prime …

employment in many jobs and for many workers. This development lowered wage-growth pressures along the transition path to a new …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our … income and consumption expenditures, wage-setting arrangements that compress relative wages, business tax policies that …

, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment …, the employment-weighted mean volatility of firm growth rates has declined by more than 40% since 1982. This result stands … volatility among privately held firms. This pattern holds in every major industry group. Employment shifts toward older …

Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …