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 …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … number of jobs at the level of the firm. Using the only available set of data (a nationally representative sample of Dutch … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

measures of self-employment and 1099 workers from administrative tax data. We also present evidence from Amazon Mechanical Turk …

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 …

We survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wages, employment and displacement. We start … offshoring across occupations. Finally, we survey the literature that examines how offshoring affects employment and displacement …

By how much does an extension of unemployment benefits affect macroeconomic outcomes such as unemployment? Answering … this question is challenging because U.S. law extends benefits for states experiencing high unemployment. We use data … and find that they increased the unemployment rate by at most 0.3 percentage point …

institutional settings where a policy variable (such as weekly unemployment benefits) is determined by an observed but potentially … unemployment insurance benefits on the duration of joblessness in Austria, where the benefit schedule has kinks at the minimum and …