This paper derives and then estimates a model of employment where unions and firms bargain over wages and possibly … employment, and efficiency wage considerations may be important. It illustrates the difficulties involved in interpreting many … existing attempts to discriminate between alternative models. The results (based on over 200 UK firms) suggest that employment …

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history … observed disability rates result from gradual deteriorations in health. We find no direct effect of health shocks on employment … the employment rate at age 40 with around 21 percentage points. Our results show that early childhood conditions are …

private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …

firm performance. Using firm level data on employment, capita, and output, census data on informal employment at the city …

negotiations. Wage and employment decisions are assumed to be made before business conditions are known; thus these decisions … effectiveness of various government policies on production, employment, and pricing. Hysteresis is shown to be a special case in a …

This paper examines the impacts of the current economic slowdown on employment generation and unemployment in Vietnam …. The study reports that as the country has experienced a slowdown, there would be an employment shortfall of around half … on employment and job creation …

methods that permit year-round employment, expanding immigrant populations in nonmetropolitan counties, and growing concerns …

This paper studies the e¤ects of service o¤shoring on the level and skill composition of domestic employment, using a …¤ect on the level of employment but changes its composition in favor of high skilled workers. …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …