persistent effect on subsequent employment and income. After initial periods with a higher incidence of sick leave, treated … treated workers, who manage to stay in employment, incur persistent income losses. The effects are stronger for sub-groups of …

innovation and employment growth in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations … using specific information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation … output. The econometric analysis confirms that product innovations have a positive impact on employment. In contrast to …

activities, this paper reports new results on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in manufacturing and … service firms in Germany. The model is tailor-made for analysing firm-level employment effects of innovations using specific … information provided by CIS data. It establishes a theoretical link between employment growth and innovation output. The …

flexibility of the labor market increases both the employment rate and the rate of participation in the labor force. A … conservative estimate suggests that if France were to make its labor markets as flexible as those in the US, its employment rate … would increase 1.6 percentage points, or 14% of the employment gap between the two countries. The estimated effects are …

. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …

computing technologies. This paper surveys the evidence on the effects of technical change on skills, wages and employment by … level product innovations appear to raise employment growth, but there is no clear evidence of a robust effect (either …

address this pressing open question in public finance, we estimate a life-cycle model in which the optimal employment …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …

In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … indication of adverse effects for (the three) other employment outcomes identified here. Moreover, with the possible exception of …