This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

employers has declined since the 1980s, yet there is a commonly expressed view that long-term employment relationships are more … difficult to attain. We reconcile these observations by examining how the distribution of employment tenure has changed in … tenure has declined markedly among older men; this trend may have spurred popular perceptions that long-term employment is …

Disappointing recent growth rates, the emergence of structurally unfavorable income and employment conditions, 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 …

attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …

This study measures the heterogeneity of establishment-level employment changes in the U.S. manufacturing sector over … the 1972 to 1986 period. We measure this heterogeneity in terms of the gross creation and destruction of jobs and the rate … at which jobs are reallocated across plants. Our measurement efforts enable us to quantify the connection between job …

increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …

flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry, employment, and output in the long run; and (2) flood events reduce … output in the short run while their impact on firm entry and employment is limited. Motivated by these findings, we construct … a spatial equilibrium model to characterize how flood risk shapes firms' location choices and workers' employment, which …