contributes to the decline in the gender employment gap but increases the race and ethnicity employment gap. This finding follows …-collar jobs. Despite their predominance in the manufacturing sector, the labor market impacts of robots are not confined to these …

This paper examines if active labor market programs help unemployed job seekers find jobs using a novel random … employment rates by 25% two years after initial job loss. This finding contrasts with the conclusion reached by ordinary least … squares (OLS), which suffers from a negative bias due to selection on unobservables. The employment effects are driven by job …

This paper provides new evidence on the effect of the 2012 reform on flows from UB to employment. The reform increased … the steepness of the time profile of unemployment benefits by raising the initial benefit, lowering its long-term level … system led to an increase in flows towards employment or inactivity either in the aggregate or when comparing groups of …

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …