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 …

the dynamics of employment during this recovery, and particularly whether it has a differential impact on employment … indeed retards employment growth more in industries that rely more heavily on federal government demand: the growth rate in … the quarters in recent years when policy uncertainty spiked. A similar impact is found for the growth of total employment …

erences in the distribution of income and wages using county-level data from Germany. Chapter 2 analyzes the impact of the so …

fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …

distribution between wages and profits, gender inequality, and wealth concentration, and their interactions; ii) the impact of … of taxation; iii) both the demand and supply-side effects; iv) effects on both output and employment.We build a three … supply side, productivity changes in the medium-run as an outcome of changes in wages, public and private expenditure and …

Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We answer this … question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using … the local projection method, we find that, during recessions, a positive fiscal spending shock increases female employment …