such groups of regions react differently to key drivers of employment and wage setting. We find that the low income (high … turn, the high income (low employment) ones are more sensitive to the wage-productivity gap, and thus to the strategy that …

of routine employment and its consequent impacts on inequality. …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and …

2014 to estimate how the business cycle affects transitions into and out of self-employment from other labor market states … transition into and out of self-employment from other labor market states, after taking into account demographic and industrial … differences. A contraction in demand has a large effect on self-employment because it alters the balance between self-employment …

We document substantial heterogeneity in occupational employment dynamics in response to government spending shocks …. Employment rises most strongly in service, sales, and office ("pink-collar") occupations. By contrast, employment in blue … employment dynamics as a consequence of differences in the short-run substitutability between labor and capital services across …

This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This … with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such … decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage-employment rates of older workers. Our results also indicate that the …

relations affects unemployment and employment rates. To measure the quality of industrial relations, we use the results of … employment. The effects appear to be large, particularly among young people …

employment primarily along a lowskill (or low 'match-quality') dimension. In such a case, job creation would serve to lower …

simple model of employment and the workweek, I use mean workweek levels to identify the effect of workweek flexibility and …