International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …

This paper examines the changes over time in public sector wages and employment relative to private sector wages and … employment using data from surveys of establishments and individuals. The paper finds that:(1) The pay of public sector workers … occupations showing federal workers to be lower paid.(4) Public sector employment follows a very different pattern of change than …

This paper finds that US employment changed differently relative to output in the Great Recession and recovery than in … most other advanced countries or in the US in earlier recessions. Instead of hoarding labor, US firms reduced employment …. Diverging from the aggregate pattern, US manufacturers reduced employment less than output while the elasticity of employment to …

In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers …

which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …

and examines whether the US fulfills these criterion. The US's employment and productivity performance make it a … workers, continued full employment will greatly strengthen the case for the US as peak economy. But with anything less than … full employment the US economy will lose its luster. Even if this occurs, however, the US record in employing women and …

. It suggests that the pay and employment experience of low skilled Americans is a poor counterfactual for assessing how …