employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the … effects of frictions on steady state employment relative to the simplest matching model, and two common extensions. We also … find that the presence of empirically plausible frictions has virtually no impact on the response of aggregate employment …

frictions characterized by employment loss and employment opportunity arrival shocks. We argue that it is able to account for … shocks play a key role in allowing the model to match the persistence of the employment and out of the labor force states …

We provide a unified discussion of the relations among flows of workers, changes in employment and changes in the … firms in 1988 and 1990) we discover that: 1) Nearly half of all hiring is by firms where employment is not growing; 2) Over … imply that macroeconomic fluctuations can have substantial effects beyond those indicated by net employment changes at the …

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …'s employment record cannot be drawn from aggregate data …

Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has grown rapidly over the past 20 years. These employment gains have been … accompanied by: (i) large increases in the number of small manufacturing firms; (ii) limited employment gains in large firms; and … (iii) robust labor productivity growth in Africa's large firms. Limited employment growth in Africa's large manufacturing …

We investigate how the employment-based health insurance system in the U.S. affects individuals' life-cycle health … turnovers lead to dynamic inefficiencies in health investment, and particularly, it suggests that employment-based health … the U.S. as a result of the employment-based health insurance system. We also evaluate and cast doubt on alternative …

countries has decreased substantially while the negative effect of a country's own employment growth (or labor force growth) on …