the differential effects across impacted areas. We employ the synthetic control method at the county level on a storm-by-storm … basis to analyze both the across- and within-storm dispersion of the labor market effects of hurricanes. We use storm data … from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Storm Events database, which covers Atlantic Basin storms from …

shocks to determine their impact on wages and employment in three different industries (construction, manufacturing, and … effect on wages in construction and leisure & hospitality sectors. During the time period studied, the parishes that are … directly hit by a hurricane suffer a 6 percent drop in wages in leisure and hospitality sector while the neighboring parishes …

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. The main methodological novelty consists of a new measure of green employment based on the task content of … occupations. Descriptive analysis reveals that: 1. the share of green employment is between 2 and 3 percent, with a strongly pro …

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

and prime-aged women in employment and the wage bills of particular sectors, but reduced the shares of older women and …

linked to employment growth and why unaffordable housing could negatively affect employment growth. The paper then … unaffordable housing and employment growth cannot be interpreted as causal. Several empirical strategies are employed to identify … the causal effect of unaffordable housing on employment growth. The estimation results provide consistent evidence that …

workers at unaffected plants, we find that acquisitions lead to employment losses for workers initially employed at the … of a rise in wages for workers initially employed at targets and at the acquiring (or 'buyer') firm who remain with the … to a reduction in overall employment but a rise in rents per worker that lead to a pattern of losers and winners in the …

A major aspect of employment growth is discussed in relation to economic growth. This paper deals with the question as … to whether the relationship between economic and employment growth, subsumed under the idiom Verdoorn's Law, holds true … markets. The employees are differentiated into sectoral affiliation, education, national status and part-time employment. The …

in Chile aimed at enhancing employability and wages, namely Youth Employment Subsidy (SEJ), Women's Employment Subsidy … impact of local labor market policies in developing countries. This article analyzes the impact of three employment programs … territorial units, time effects, and geographic factors are all employed as controls per each matching procedure. For wages …