the considerable gains in employment rates it had achieved during the 1990s, with major contractions in manufacturing … recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and that, through input-output linkages and other general equilibrium …-level approaches to estimate the size of (a) employment losses in directly exposed manufacturing industries, (b) employment effects in …

This paper examines the impact of government assistance through R&D grants on innovation output for firms in New … the probability that a firm in the manufacturing and service sectors applies for a patent during 2005–2009, but no … Operation Survey, we find that receiving a grant almost doubles the probability that a firm introduces new goods and services to …

This study examines the impact of unions on wages and employment using data from Uruguay in a period where unions were …-specific bargaining (1992-1997). The relationship between wages and employment shifted significantly across these periods as evidenced by … changes. - Wages are exogenous to employment before 1985, but not afterwards. - The wage elasticity and the employment …

, 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 …

-level and technology class-level patent production. Accompanying this fall in innovation, global employment, sales …The competitive shock to the U.S. manufacturing sector spurred by rising China import competition could either catalyze … or stifle innovation. Using three distinct sources of variation to identify rising trade exposure, we provide a causal …

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 …

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 …