symmetric marginal employment subsidies where firms are rewarded when they increase employment but punished when they reduce … their workforce, we consider an asymmetric scheme that only rewards employment expansion. This changes the incidence … employment and welfare. For moderate subsidy rates, all unions prefer to restrain their wage claims. At sufficiently high subsidy …

than it was in 1989. Last, the rate of self-employment has been falling gently in ISSP data; even so three to four times as … satisfied than are employees, one consistent interpretation of the above is that the barriers to self-employment have grown in …

This paper looks behind the standard, publicly available employment and unemployment statistics that studies of … estimates show that measured employment and unemployment rates are quite sensitive to definition, particularly in the treatment … official definitions in apparently minor ways can produce alternative employment rates that are sharply higher in Russia but …

This study investigates the employment and wage disparities between people with and without disabilities. It shows that … unemployment rates, are more likely to be self-employed and tend to earn lower wages. These disparities do not appear to be …, the potentially greater job flexibility offered by self-employment, and discrimination against people with disabilities …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on … the labour force activity of older immigrants who have lived in Canada for more than twenty years. Since immigrants could …

massive changes in the structure of production and employment; and the Kaldor facts of economic growth. We assume that … industries with an expanding and those with a declining employment share coexist, and each such industry goes (or has already …

appreciated in light of persistent unemployment in the new structure of economies of the post-21st-Century-crisis world. …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … of the labor force. Second, it rationalizes several empirical works on the definition of unemployment in labor force … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …