Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill … premium but that changes in relative employment are related to changes in relative wages raising the possibility of some …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper …, will have large effects on the pattern of employment across different sectors of the economy and will require a substantial …

High-skilled immigrants are a very important component of U.S. innovation and entrepreneurship. Immigrants account for … home country remains unclear. We know very little about return migration of workers engaged in innovation and …

This paper studies the impact of process and product innovations introduced by firms on employment growth in these … firms. A simple model that relates employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to … innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …

have two findings to report. First, the data collected by CK appear to indicate greater employment variation over the eight …-month period between their surveys than do the payroll data. For example, in the full sample the standard deviation of employment … change in CK's data is three times as large as that in the payroll data. Second, estimates of the employment effect of 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 … reallocation and worker reallocation, to evaluate theories of heterogeneity in plant-level employment dynamics, and to establish …

, the employment rate of teenage workers rose, while their school enrollment rate fell …