composition of occupations and in the employment distribution of workers that produced the observed reductions in segregation were …

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 …-German difference in employment rates …

at the current levels of unemployment and labor force participation …

This paper first documents trends in employment rates and then reviews what is known about the various factors that … have been proposed to explain the decline in the overall employment-to-population ratio between 1999 and 2016. Population … aging has had a notable effect on the overall employment rate over this period, but within-age-group declines in employment …

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 …

gender gap in this hazard rate, since low earners were more likely to leave employment, and were disproportionately female … points relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the … most important determinant of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than half of the …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving … the observed gender differences in expected earnings profiles. We also find no evidence that gender differences in …