benefits affects the employment decisions of older veterans. We make use of variation in program eligibility resulting from a … decreased labor force participation and induced a substantially larger switch from wage employment to self-employment. This …

changes from wage-and-salary to self-employment and changes from working to non-working status. In each two-year transition … approximately four percent of wage-and-salary workers switched to self-employment. They were primarily men who were previously self …-employed or who were in wage-and-salary occupations with characteristics similar to self-employment, e.g., managers and salesmen …

self-employment rate and the unemployment rate. It is also shown that the self-employed are more satisfied with their jobs …This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any … analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 …

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 …

We use a resume audit study to better understand the role of employment and unemployment histories in affecting … disparate findings in prior studies. While we cannot reconcile earlier findings on the effect of unemployment duration, the … findings solidify an emerging consensus on the role of age and employment on callback. First, among applicants across a broad …

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

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 …

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 …

's criminal justice system, offering new insights into how incarceration affects subsequent crime and employment. We construct a … directed at improving employability and reducing recidivism, and ultimately, raises employment and earnings while discouraging … negative effect on employment. Contrary to the widely embraced ‘nothing works' doctrine, these findings demonstrate that time …

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 …