causal effects of STW on employment and wages. We find that, while STW significantly reduces the volume of work per worker …, it does not lead to statistically significant employment gains for the average treated firm. Importantly, positive … employment effects are concentrated among small manufacturing firms, which are more likely to face binding liquidity constraints …

paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

This paper examines the incidence of involuntary job loss and its impact on the employment and earnings of affected … workers, using data from the Survey of Families, Incomes and Employment (SoFIE) for the 2002-09 period. It focusses on … employees who had been working in their job for at least one year before the job loss. The impact of displacement on employment …

analysis suggests that this cost-shifting policy implied significant positive e ects on employment and aggregate output …

-displacement wage. Using rich and accurate data on workers’ employment patterns before and after displacement, we compare the earnings … and employment outcomes of displaced workers who entered transfer companies with those that did not. Workers can choose … and IV estimates indicate that the use of a transfer company has a positive and significant effect on employment rates …

paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

This paper shows that the effects of employment protection critically depend on its enforcement. For this purpose, we … capture evasion of employment protection via market exit in a setting of monopolistic competition. We find that the number of … firms entering the market depends on firing costs only in the case of imperfect enforcement of employment protection …