Publications

2015
Working Paper

Informal Tradables and the Employment Growth of Indian Manufacturing

By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Alexander Segura

India's manufacturing growth from 1989 to 2010 displays two intriguing properties: 1) a substantial fraction of absolute and net employment growth is concentrated in informal tradable industries, and 2) much of this growth is connected to the development of one-person... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; India; Informality; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Development Economics; Manufacturing Industry; India

January 1989
Supplement

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Computer Industry; Manufacturing Industry

2019
Working Paper

Industrial Change, the Boundary of the Firm, and Racial Employment Segregation

By: John-Paul Ferguson and Rembrand Koning

Racial employment segregation between large workplaces in America has grown over the last generation. We know little about how changes in patterns of employment by economic sector have contributed to this growth, though. While there are many stylized narratives about... View Details

Keywords: Workplace Segregation; Firm Boundaries; Organizations; Employees; Segmentation; Race; Change; United States

06 Dec 2019
News

Understanding the skills gap—and what employers can do about it

September 1980 (Revised April 1984)
Background Note

Note on Japanese Management and Employment Systems

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Management; Employment

09 Apr 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

Keywords: by Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo

November 1989
Case

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

2013
Article

Immigration and Employer Transitions for STEM Workers

By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

We analyze the career trajectories of STEM workers and firm-level hiring of immigrants using the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) database of the US Census Bureau. We find STEM career adjustments during periods of abnormally high immigration into the... View Details

Keywords: Nationality; Employment; Immigration

February 1989
Supplement

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B1)

By: D. Quinn Mills

Keywords: Employment; Information Technology Industry

19 Jun 2012
News

Employer Branding: Bloß nicht am Headcount kürzen

02 Mar 2022
News

How Employers Can Invest in Frontline Workers

2023
Working Paper

State Employment as a Strategy of Autocratic Control in China

By: Jaya Y. Wen

This paper presents evidence that autocrats use state-owned firms to strategically pacify social unrest via employment provision, a role that may contribute to their favorable treatment and persistence across settings. I use variation in a regional conflict between... View Details

Keywords: State Ownership; Employment; Government and Politics; Conflict Management; China

09 Jun 2012
News

USA: Employers don't pay injury costs

03 Sep 2013
News

With Change Coming, Aetna Targets Employers

08 Sep 2020
News

How to Identify a Family-Friendly Employer

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

inappropriate touching that the person wouldn’t get a promotion or raise or might even be punished or fired? By tolerating bad behavior or allowing it to escalate, did the employer create a hostile work environment? Protect the accuser... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

workers”—those who want a job or more hours but are thwarted by employer policies. Who is in this group and why do they leave the workforce? Joseph B. Fuller: They are people who have some significant care obligations within their... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

December 2020
Article

The Employment Effects of Faster Payment: Evidence from the Federal Quickpay Reform

By: Jean-Noel Barrot and Ramana Nanda

We study the impact of Quickpay, a federal reform that indefinitely accelerated payments to small business contractors of the U.S. government. We find a strong direct effect of the reform on employment growth at the firm level. Importantly, however, we also... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Employment; Business and Government Relations; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms