productivity and employment growth across groups of countries within Europe. Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor … employment per capita, leaving little difference in growth of output per capita between the EU and US going back to 1980. We … document the productivity-employment tradeoff in the raw data, in regressions that control for the two-way causation between …

Is the poor aggregate employment growth of the manufacturing sector in Sub-Saharan African countries the outcome of … creation and destruction rates simultaneously follow each other. Second, to expand employment growth, effort should be …

-cited economic policy advice that can hardly be justified empirically: Wage increases will result in significant employment losses … more strongly because the set employment losses do not materialise. There are no noticeable losses in growth and employment …

In this paper, we discuss the time series properties of a novel daily series of aggregate employment creation and … duration, which seems to have exacerbated the spikes in employment flows over the calendar year. First, we identify calendar …, we investigate the importance of calendar effects for aggregate employment dynamics. We find that the employment growth …

This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This … with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a … decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage employment rates of older workers. Comparing results for men and women …

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 …