frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …

employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the … effects of frictions on steady state employment relative to the simplest matching model, and two common extensions. We also … find that the presence of empirically plausible frictions has virtually no impact on the response of aggregate employment …

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …'s employment record cannot be drawn from aggregate data …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over … imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the …

providing generous financial incentives for Income Assistance (IA) recipients to obtain stable employment. This policy is …

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 …