Employment rates of Hispanic males in the United States are considerably lower than employment rates of whites. In the … data used in this paper, the Hispanic male employment rate is 61 percent, compared with 83 percent for white men.1 The … question of the employment disadvantage of Hispanic men likely has many parallels to the question of the employment …

's Longitudinal Business Database, we document that firms redistribute the employment impacts of local demand shocks across regions … sharp drop in consumer demand, leading to large employment losses in the non-tradable sector. Consistent with firms …-level employment with respect to house prices in other counties in which the firm has establishments. At the same time, establishments …

We test the effects of labor market networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following mass … employers by other network members. These network measures are linked to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs, and to … re-employment at neighbors’ employers. We also find evidence that network connections – especially those that provide …

corporations, employment and the number of establishments have corporate tax elasticities of -0.4, and do not vary with changes in …

larger decline in employment in response to a drop in consumer demand. These results are not driven by firms being less … aggregate employment or house prices. At the county level, we find that counties with more highly levered firms experience … aggregate employment. Our research suggests a possible role for employment policies that target firms directly besides …