Between 1999 and 2004 Switzerland opened its border region (BR) to cross-border workers (CBW), who are foreign … residents commuting to Switzerland for work. In this paper, we exploit the timing of implementation and the fact that CBW … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased …

. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh … gainful employment arm, in which work is offered and individuals are paid weekly the approximate equivalent of that in the … cash arm. We find that employment confers significant psychosocial benefits beyond the impacts of cash alone, with effects …

present a theoretical overview of the effects of health insurance on mobility and wage/employment determination. I critically …

This paper evaluates the response of employment to exchange rate shocks at the industry level for the G-7 countries … data are consistent with the view that employment in European industries, at least France and Germany, is much less … United Kingdom and Italy all appear to adjust more quickly. German and Japanese employment are quite insensitive to exchange …

We rely on a decomposition of employment changes into job creation and job destruction components - and a novel set of … inferences: 1) The data favor a many- shock characterization of fluctuations in employment and job reallocation, 2) Theories of … employment fluctuations that attribute a predominant role to aggregate shocks must in order to fit the data involve …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

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 …