Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

Great Recession. While GDP dropped by more than five per cent in 2009, employment remained constant and started to increase … productivity and working time cushioned their impact on employment. We find that reductions in hourly productivity played a … Recession, temporary working time reductions were amply used to stabilise employment. Using a time series model, we show that …

The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a … slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small …

expected magnitudes of these effects on firms’ employment dynamics? In this paper, I simulate a theoretical model featuring … simulations show quite small employment effects of typical shocks to the number of vacancies in the local labor market and very … small effects of typical shocks to the number of unemployed. The employment effects are smaller in recessions than in booms …

In this paper, we discuss the time series properties of a novel daily series of aggregate employment creation and … duration, which seems to have exacerbated the spikes in employment flows over the calendar year. First, we identify calendar …, we investigate the importance of calendar effects for aggregate employment dynamics. We find that the employment growth …

We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks …. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue … employment dynamics as a consequence of differences in the short-run substitutability between labor and capital services across …

2014 to estimate how the business cycle affects transitions into and out of self-employment from other labor market states … transition into and out of self-employment from other labor market states, after taking into account demographic and industrial … differences. A contraction in demand has a large effect on self-employment because it alters the balance between self-employment …