This paper deals with the heterogeneous employment outcome at the plant level in Swedish manufacturing over the period … 1972-96. Non-negligible gross flows of jobs is found to be a pronounced feature in Swedish manufacturing, but as compared … movement. Little of the observed heterogeneity in the plant-level employment outcome can be explained by easily observable …

We explore the impact of wage adjustment on employment with a focus on the role of downward nominal wage rigidities. We … results point to a negative effect of downward wage rigidities on employment at the firm level. …

This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South … Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from …/17 and difference-in-difference models, our results show that employment decreased by approximately 14 percentage points …

school graduates accumulated 2.8 quarters more private employment. However, because they substitute private for public and … self-employment, overall employment does not increase but is still better paid. For high school dropouts, no persistent …

Studies find that technological change has contributed to the decline in manufacturing and to persistent unemployment … in many advanced economies. While process innovation can be job-destroying, product innovation can imply the emergence of … new firms, new sectors, and thus new jobs. But even for process innovation, the final impact on labor demand is shaped by …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …

the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and - through input-output linkages and other general …Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back …

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 …