This paper provides evidence of the impact of COVID-19 on employment in Chile. During the last two quarters, the pandemic destroyed two million jobs, almost one third of the labor force. To formulate economic policies we must understand why some sectors, occupations, and demographic groups are...

This paper (draft) is a first attempt of analysing the dataset of academic job market in History using the posts from H-Net website. We can see a significant decline in available professor positions for the last 10 years, and a sharp fall in available jobs due to COVID-19

Understaffing is a problem within the Mississippi Department of Corrections, but Mississippi’s poor labor market, struggling economy, and deficient budget do not currently support the needs of the Mississippi Department of Corrections and demonstrate factors which limit the agency’s...

Unemployment among young people is one of the challenges that continues to face every country without distinction, especially countries in transition. In the case of Kosovo, the challenges have been even greater, given the fact that many processes are intertwined, such as state building,...

We investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on the propensity to hire workers from unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only. Using administrative data from Sweden, we find that less...

Average hours worked in the US recovers much faster than the unemployment rate following financial crises. Using an identified vector autoregression framework with nine quarterly US time series from 1984 to 2014, I find that an adverse financial shock leads to a fall in economic activity with a...

West Germany's Employment Promotion Act of 1985 facilitated the use of fixed term contracts and increased the number of dismissals above which the employer is required to establish a 'social plan' (involving severance payments). The effect of this reduction in 'firing costs' on movements in...

This paper exposits the modern theory of equalizing differences,viewed as optimal assignments of workers to jobs. The basic ideas are first illustrated in a simple model with binary choices of work attributes.Multinominal choices are briefly considered after that. Empirical implications are...

Does a worker's first job affect her long-run career? Do any such "first job effects" vary across workers of different types? If so, can policy improve upon a "free" labor market by altering initial matches with employers? We begin to study the impact of market design on the performance of...

Wang (2018) elucidates the relationship between NDC pension and fertility in a two-period OLG model of a small open economy with an imperfect labor market. What if the analysis is conducted in a closed economy? This study demonstrates an economic comparison between a closed and open economy with...