difference between men and women: while many male workers took up informal employment, most female workers dropped out of the … search or employment. Our findings suggest that bridging the gap between rural youths and urban formal labour markets …

Norway has a well-functioning labour market with high employment and a compressed wage distribution, contributing to … low inequality. Norway nevertheless faces challenges from a trend decline in employment rates among the young and prime … market and identifies its main strengths and weaknesses and then goes on to discussing policy areas to boost employment and …

We examine employment effects of the COVID-19 crisis in Norway during the initial lockdown, through the subsequent … pandemic, both the level and the socioeconomic composition of employment quickly returned to normal. In contrast, we find … considerable negative long-term employment effects on people who were non-employed when the crisis hit. We argue that these …

This paper shows empirically that the non-employment effects of unemployment insurance (UI) for older workers depend in …

(employment), unpaid work (time spent on domestic work) and incomes, this paper examines the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on …, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points …

To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the … to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women's labor market …