'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 …

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …

investment boom of 1995-2000 drew many younger and less-educated workers into employment. Employment rates for these workers …

county and industry in the US. We study the impact of this reform on county-sector employment growth over the subsequent …. Importantly, however, we document substantial crowding out of non-treated firms employment, particularly in counties with low …

countries. I begin by describing how gender norms influence the relationship between economic development and female employment … several specific gender-related social norms and how they constrain women's employment. I present examples of policies aimed … at dismantling these cultural barriers to female employment and the impacts they have …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of federal welfare reform on the employment, hours of work and marriage rates … employment and attachment to the labor market. TANF appears to have had a larger effect on the least educated native-born women …

implications of Renminbi (RMB) real exchange rate appreciation for adjustments in employment and wage rates. We stress differences … real exchange rate appreciation would likely have pronounced effects on both net employment and wage rates. A 10% RMB … appreciation would likely cause a net employment decline in Chinese manufacturing industries of between 4.1% and 5.3%, and a wage …