This paper examines the economic effects of employment protection legislation in a sample of developed and developing … associated with cross-country regressions. This test is based on the hypothesis that employment protection regulations are more … are intrinsically more volatile. The paper also finds that employment and value added decline in the most affected sectors …

employees, as well as, for those of high and low skill in US manufacturing for the period 1995 - 2005. We find strong evidence … on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …-firm exports but unaffected by intra-firm imports. The last two findings put together, suggest that low-skill intensive stages of …

.S. employers to estimate the effects of financial access on employment growth. Our methods combine regressions with matching on … firm age, size, industry, year, and employment history, and with instrumental variables capturing ease of access to SBA … constraints impede small business growth prior to loan receipt. We also investigate the variation in estimated employment effects …

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 …

tempt to assess the impact of green policies on employment. I draw two main conclusions from this exercise. First, my … small share of overall employment in the U.S, and one that has seen relatively weak growth in the last decade. Second, due …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

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 …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … comparison areas to those that are geographically proximate and fails to control for changes in low-skill labor markets that are … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …