This paper focuses on the ability of the labor market to correctly match heterogeneous workers to jobs within a given … evidence that openness improves the matching between workers and firms in industries with greater comparative advantage. This …

matching between workers and firms in export-oriented industries. Changes that reduce the cost of imports have an ambiguous …

effect of health on labor market outcomes. We argue that in our sample of exactly matched treated and control workers, these … workers are more likely unemployed, and a growing share of them leaves the labor market via disability retirement. Those … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

Maternity leave policies are designed to safeguard the health of pregnant workers and their unborn children. However …. We conclude that, for workers without problems in pregnancy, mandatory maternity leave should not start prior to the 35th …

Maternity leave policies are presumed to be essential to ensure the health of pregnant workers and their unborn …

number of studies argue that, at least for some workers, the informality status may be driven by choice rather than exclusion … countries, and it seems to be lower for less-skilled workers. …