, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …

, age, and prior growth. Relative to controls, employment at target establishments declines 3 percent over two years post … at target firms are less than 1 percent of initial employment. In contrast, the sum of gross job creation and destruction … at target firms exceeds that of controls by 13 percent of employment over two years. In short, private equity buyouts …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

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 …

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations.We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …