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 …

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

employers has declined since the 1980s, yet there is a commonly expressed view that long-term employment relationships are more … difficult to attain. We reconcile these observations by examining how the distribution of employment tenure has changed in … tenure has declined markedly among older men; this trend may have spurred popular perceptions that long-term employment is …

We study a large-scale French reform that provided generous downside insurance for unemployed individuals starting a … employment is largely offset by large crowd-out effects. However, because new firms are more productive, the reform has the …

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 …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … the 1972 to 1986 period. We measure this heterogeneity in terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate … at which jobs are reallocated across plants. Our measurement efforts enable us to quantify the connection between job …

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 …

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 …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …