variation in regional unemployment and in the development of employment is puzzling. Our explanation of this regional variation … leads to an expansion of employment if product demand is elastic. It is accompanied, however, by shrinkage of employment if … series data on output, prices, employment and national income for Germany provided by the Federal Statistical Office and the …

This paper explores the nature and the key empirical regularities of green employment in US local labor markets between … 2006 and 2014. We construct a new measure of green employment based on the task content of occupations. Descriptive … analysis reveals the following: 1. the share of green employment oscillates between 2 and 3 percent, and its trend is strongly …

between agglomeration externalities (specialization, diversity, and competition), accessibilty measures and the employment … growth of a particular industry on a particular site. We use data on employment growth of site-industries on 68 formal …

About 5 percent of U.S. workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the …

We analyze the optimal regional pattern of public employment in an information-constrained second-best redistribution … policy showing that regionally differentiated public employment can serve as an expenditure side tagging device, bypassing or … relaxing the equity-effciency trade-off. The optimal pattern exhibits higher levels of public employment in low productivity …

. One of the main concerns is the negative effects of growing import competition on employment. This paper focuses on … manufacturing sector employment because of its high trade exposure and potential for wider spillovers. It finds that while trade … appears to have only a minor association with manufacturing employment shares at the national level compared with technology …