We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

U.S. county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been deconcentrating. In contrast …, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory … dependence in growth rates. Young industries exhibit non-monotone relationships between employment levels and growth rates, while …

(TFP) that are common across countries. We find that automation displaces employment and reduces labor's share of value …-added in the industries in which it originates (a direct effect). In the case of employment, these own-industry losses are … employment across industries and the aggregate fall in the labor share over the last three decades. It does not, however, explain …

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 …

The decline in the employment-population ratios for men and women over the period 2000-2007 prior to the Great … Recession represents an historic turnaround in the evolution of U.S. employment. The decline is disproportionately concentrated … experienced quite different wage and employment trends. Neither taxes nor transfers appear likely to explain the employment …

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2018. Population … aging has had a large effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …

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 chances of unemployed job seekers. If anything, temporary help work seems to provide an access …Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our …

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