This paper uses the task-content-of-occupations framework to analyze trends in employment and wages of female and male …: nonroutine cognitive, routine cognitive, nonroutine manual, and routine manual. Decomposing the changes in employment shares into … between-industry changes and within-industry changes across occupational categories reveals that within-industry employment …

-linear effects on employment of raising the minimum wage, in particular that marginal disemployment effects become larger when the …-linear disemployment effects are much more apparent for countries with strict Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) and/or with a high …

This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We … that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed …

Using German SOEP data, 1999 - 2009, this study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German … stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed and waiting for a better job. …

employment. Family policies that subsidize childcare and increase its availability have different effects on female labor supply … may depend on countryspecific pre-reform female employment and earnings, and childcare availability, costs, and quality. …

Using a nationally representative large-scale survey of individual ICT skills in India (Multiple Indicators Survey … instrumental variables (IV) strategy. The IV approach exploits the dramatic expansion of cell towers in India as a source of supply … participation and employment). In contrast, there are important effects at the intensive margin: a 10 percentile higher ICT skills …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …