employment by means of a regression discontinuity analysis. Because this threshold is known in advance, they investigate the … presence of discontinuities in both the level and the slope of employment probabilities at different ages around the threshold …. Their results indicate that turning 22 does not significantly change the employment probability. However, they find a …

Trade regulation can create jobs in the sectors it protects or promotes, but almost always at the expense of destroying … a roughly equivalent number of jobs elsewhere in the economy. At a product-specific or micro level and in the short term …, controlling trade could reduce the offending imports and save jobs, but for the economy as a whole and in the long term, this has …

conventional fossil fuel power plants with renewable sources. Such a policy shift may affect employment in different ways. On the … one hand, it could create new and additional “green jobs” in the renewables sector; on the other hand, it could crowd out … employment in other sectors. An additional consideration is the potential increase in energy prices, which has the potential to …

world, it was not spared from the effects of the 2008 global financial crisis. The economy has not recovered and employment …

of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the … that estimates the impacts of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours worked using difference-in-differences estimation. We … find a small decrease in the employment rate of 22-59/64-year-olds in NI, of up to 2% points, in the year following the …