discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages …

How does consumer credit access impact job flows, earnings, and entrepreneurship? To answer this question, we build a … new administrative dataset which links individual employment and entrepreneur tax records to TransUnion credit reports …, individuals flow into self-employment. New entrants earn more, borrow significantly using unsecured and secured consumer credit …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

This paper shows that firms spread the adverse impacts of local employment shocks across regions through their internal … establishment-level employment responds strongly to employment shocks in other regions in which the firm has establishments …. Consistent with theory, the elasticity of establishment-level employment with respect to shocks in other regions is increasing …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …

although the employment share in manufacturing is not expanding rapidly, in most of the low-income African countries, the … employment share in manufacturing has not peaked and is still expanding, albeit from very low levels. More work is needed to … understand the implications of these shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …