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

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 studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

allows for local bargaining. The Italian system has significant costs in terms of forgone aggregate earnings and employment …

emigrants are disproportionately young and skilled, and that individuals suffering a layoff or non-employment spell are also …

employment growth by re-weighting the data based on an estimated propensity score that depends on lagged economic outcomes and …

largely above its pre-recession level. We find two main explanations for these differences. First, the large employment swings … consistent with a conventional Okun relationship linking GDP growth to employment performance. In particular, relative to pre …

) consumption, and increased employment growth, with responses concentrated in the non-tradable sector. Our findings have …

We study the employment and output effects of the short-time work (STW) policy in Germany between 2009 and 2010. This …