What We Learn from Migration to the Fracking Boom

State-to-state and county-to-county migration is an important way for local economies to recover and adjust after experiencing an unexpected downturn

How to Increase Workplace Diversity? Start by Asking for Diverse Candidates

Many firms have set ambitious goals to increase diversity among their employees, but there is a dearth of empirical evidence

In the turmoil of the Great Recession, the Spanish government reduced the level of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in relation

Economists have been studying how minimum wage increases affect employment for a long time, but indexing the minimum wage to

Everything else equal, employers might respond differently to a person based on where they live, avoiding people from a neighborhood

Thousands of articles have been written on gender differentials in labor markets, but almost none have studied employers’ explicit requests

Policies aimed at tackling youth unemployment are a key priority for policymakers because unemployment when young is known to have

The United States is one of very few OECD countries where employers provide sick pay only voluntarily. This has led

In a unique historical episode, between April and September of 1980, 120,000 low-skilled Cubans arrived in Miami. The sudden nature

The pay of CEOs and other top executives has been the focus of academic and policy debates given its sharp