Can Temporary Work Agencies Reduce Unemployment?

Temporary work is considered an important channel for unemployed job seekers to find work, but does it have an effect

Social Security Reform in Japan Motivated Workers to Stay Longer, but Younger Workers Adapted

Social security reform is becoming an increasingly debated topic among policymakers in many countries with rapidly aging populations. As populations

In 2008, Sweden introduced a new “activation” program, the Youth Job Guarantee (YJG), to help unemployed youth find jobs though

The share of university students completing an internship is as high as 75–80 percent in many countries throughout North America

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

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