larger effects. H-1Bs substantially crowd out employment of other workers. We find some evidence that additional H-1Bs lead …

focused on productivity do not predict economic growth, while indexes emphasizing taxes and costs predict growth of employment …

Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …

In search and bargaining models, the effect of higher wages on employment is determined by the elasticity of the job … creation curve and a standard demand curve is that the former represents a relationship between wages and employment rates …, while the latter represents a relationship between wages and employment levels. Although this distinction is quite simple …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

employment for teens and young adults, with elasticities in the range -0.1 to -0.2. In addition, we find that subminimum wages …