younger and older workers increases more in slower-growing, older, and larger firms and in firms with higher mean wages, where …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … with their relatively high wages raise the question of how they are successfully absorbed into the labor market. We present …

We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany … downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses and their cyclicality is driven by declines in wages. Key to these long …-paying firms. Changes in characteristics of workers or displacing firms explain little of the cyclicality, though non-employment …

) higher labor force exit and other programs' take-up, especially among older workers; (iii) lower re-employment wages. The …-in-differences design, we document that shorter benefits caused (i) shorter non-employment duration, especially among younger workers; (ii …

, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …

of STEM worker growth on the wages and employment of college and non-college educated native workers in 219 U.S. cities … workers in a city were associated with significant increases in wages paid to college educated natives. Wage increases for non …-college educated natives are smaller but still significant. We do not find significant effects on employment. We also find that STEM …

on the employment and wages of both central-office workers and manufacturing plant employees. We find that central … offices that changed owners between 1977 and 1982 had substantially lower -- about 16% lower -- employment growth during that …&D employment.) In contrast, employment growth in production establishments changing owners was only 5% lower than it was in …

which changes in the industrial wage structure may have for employment. With regard to the flexibility of wages across … impact of a flexible industry wage structure on employment, we evaluate the circumstances under which flexible wages among … industries may be employment enhancing, and the set of circumstances under which flexible wages are likely to be employment …