Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … employment being a prime contributor to the slump. The U.S. employment "sag" of the 2000s is widely recognized but poorly …

increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

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 …

whether increases in employment are associated with increased incidence of the flu. We use state-level data on the prevalence … percentage point increase in the employment rate increases the number of influenza related doctor visits by about 16 percent, and …

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of … document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment advantage. By April …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 6th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains … largely above its pre-recession level. We find two main explanations for these differences. First, the large employment swings …