objective is to identify policy tools that help generate sustained increases in employment in the long run. Therefore, we focus …

inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …

shipyard workers and miners. They have higher employment, not higher unemployment, and higher earnings than the comparison …

In this paper we estimate the dynamic relationship between employment in R&D and generation of knowledge as measured by …

earnings per worker are the result of slow-moving changes in the structure of employment and the characteristics of workers, as … of agricultural labour are among the most significant changes in the structure of employment, and they contribute to … the returns to formal and informal employees relative to the self-employed; changes to full-time employment relative to …

We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990–91 is associated with 2.9 percentage … points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the …

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s … percent. We examine whether relatively standard wage and employment equations can account for the volatile economic … demand equations suggest that cuts in working time may have slightly increased employment as firms substituted workers for …

This paper investigates if conclusions regarding labour market hysteresis differ depending on whether employment or …, Sweden, the U.K. and the U.S., we find results for employment rates that contrast those based on unemployment rates. In … particular, rather than the mixed evidence for hysteresis found using unemployment rates, employment rates result in unequivocal …