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 …

the U.S. labor market during the first four months of the global COVID-19 pandemic. After aggregate employment fell by 21 … percent through late-April, employment rebounded somewhat through late-June. The re-opening of temporarily shuttered … businesses contributed significantly to the employment rebound, particularly for smaller businesses. We show that worker recall …

, Japanese firms resembled U.S. multinationals. A Japanese parent's employment, given the level of its production, tends to be … similar to that of Swedish firms, but contrasts with that of U.S. firms. U.S. firms appear to reduce employment at home …-wage countries. We conclude that in Japanese firms and ancillary employment at home to service foreign operations outweighs any …

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

measures of self-employment and 1099 workers from administrative tax data. We also present evidence from Amazon Mechanical Turk …

In a series of earlier papers we have examined the impact of exchange rate movements on employment and output in the … impact of exchange rate movements on manufacturing employment, disaggregated geographically, using census divisions, regions …, states and SMSA's as the unit of analysis. Empirical estimates of employment changes are first presented for the four census …

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 …