states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … employment of married women …

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …

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 …

wages; hours of work; the development of the factory system; the growth of unions; and government regulation of labor …

evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …

Affirmative Action is not only supposed to help move minorities and females into employment, it is also supposed to …. Using disaggregated employment data in a new sample of nearly 10,000 establishments,this study finds that Affirmative Action … was generally successful during the late 1910's in increasing minority employment in skilled white-collar occupations as …

This paper presents evidence that job suburbanization caused significant declines in black employment from 1970 to 2000 … across metropolitan areas, I find that job suburbanization is associated with substantial declines in black employment rates … relative to white employment rates. Evidence from nationally planned highway infrastructure corroborates a causal …

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 …