This paper investigates the potential reasons for the surprisingly different labor market performance of the United … 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 …

The Great Recession tested the ability of the "great U.S. jobs machine" to limit the severity of unemployment in a … major economic downturn and to restore full employment quickly afterward. In the crisis the American labor market failed to … live up to expectations. The level and duration of unemployment increased substantially in the downturn and the growth of …

improve the labor markets in which blacks - especially low-income urban blacks - tend to reside. We first review the … discuss new evidence of labor market networks that are to some extent stratified by race, which may help explain racial … urban blacks, and because, in the case of MTO, the role of labor market networks was weakened. Finally, we discuss policies …

This paper reassesses the evidence on the assimilation and the changing labor market skills of immigrants to the United … States. We find strong evidence of labor market assimilation for most immigrant groups. For Asian and Mexican immigrants the … find little evidence of declining immigrant "quality" within ethnic groups. The diminished labor market skills of new …

the unskilled. By contrast, in Europe it is undoubtedly the rise and persistence of unemployment. Technology has been … identified as a key reason for the rising US wage inequality, while labor market rigidities are often cited as a key reason for … European unemployment. This paper seeks to provide a unified account of these major factor market developments. It models the …

decentralization of bargaining increased labor market flexibility and contributed to the reduction of unemployment. Our analysis …This paper deals with the reform to labor market regulation implemented by Chile during the last twenty years. We … taxes. Our interest is to understand to what extent these reforms helped reduce Chile's rate of unemployment from European …

temporal evolution of job retention rates in U.S. labor markets, using data assembled from the sequence of Current Population …

the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions. Positive shocks in the textile, iron, and coal industries increased … prosecutions, and wages responded more to labor demand shocks. Coercive contract enforcement was applied in industrial Britain …

of labor-market institutions such an approach is incomplete. Drawing on the history of American labor markets over two … historical evolution of American labor markets can best be characterized as a sequence of relatively stable arrangements … the labor market …