People with disabilities have low employment and wage levels, and some studies suggest employer discrimination is a … expected to limit productivity in accounting, helping rule out productivity-based explanations for any differences in employer … findings is consistent with the idea that disability discrimination continues to impede employment prospects of people with …

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

that made the room dimmer, had the effect of increasing productivity. The data from the illumination experiments, however …

. We combine daily production line-level data with weather data and estimate a negative, nonlinear productivity …, and thus raises productivity, particularly on hot days. Using the firm’s costing data, we estimate the pay-back period for … LED adoption is nearly one-sixth the length after accounting for productivity co-benefits …

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 … the key features of observed labor market flows for reasonable parameter values. Persistent idiosyncratic productivity … 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 …

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 …