employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours … increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop corresponding to an aggregate employment effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect was … driven by an increase in part-time employment while full-time employment was not affected. The statistical significance of …

Job polarization is a widely documented phenomenon in developed countries since the 1980s: employment has been shifting …- and high-skilled services, the wages in these two sectors have to grow at a faster pace than in the middle. …

This paper evaluates the strength of information flow from employed past coworkers on the re-employment duration of … evaluates the probability to drop out of labor force as well as subsequent match quality based on re-entry wages and re …-entry tenure. We find that a 10 percentage point increase in the network employment rate leads to a 3.2 percent increase in the …

theoretical and empirical literature we find that the employment status networks members matters for the job finding rate. We …