International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some … substitution behavior. Still, the differing dispersion of wages is not a major contributor to differences in employment rates. The …

, both in gross and net terms. We employ a variety of measures of relative employment growth, employer size and … cyclical behavior. The differential growth rate of employment between large (gt;1000 employees) and small (lt;50) firms varies …

Do the job-to-job moves of workers contribute to the cyclicality of employment growth at different types of firms? In … reallocation to higher wage firms falling to zero. We also find that differential responses of net hires from non-employment play … an important role in the patterns of the cyclicality of employment dynamics across firms classified by size and wage. For …

issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive …

might later influence how international economists model the interaction between international trade and employment …

We estimate the impact of state-level “E-Verify” legislation that mandates employment eligibility verification for … private-sector workers. We document declines in formal sector employment and employment turnover after mandate passage, with … far more likely to comply with mandates. Heterogeneity in adherence leads to substantial within-state employment …

We examine the employment responses to import competition from China and to global export expansion from the United …