The term ‘green jobs’ can refer to employment in a narrowly defined set of industries providing environmental services. But it is more useful for the policy-maker to focus on the broader issue of the employment consequences of policies to correct environmental externalities such as anthropogenic climate change. Most of the literature focuses on direct employment created, with more cursory treat...

Differences in growth, wages, and unemployment across metropolitan areas are well documented in the urban and regional economics literature.1 Researchers, however, know little about the underlying labor dynamics and establishment characteristics related to such differences. With establishment microdata, linked across time, one can analyze employment growth in terms of the number of jobs created...

In this paper, we examine the relationship between economic growth, as measured by both real GDP and the output gap, and employment in the ten largest states from 1990 to 2003. Models are developed to estimate the employment intensity of economic growth as well as the timing of the relationship between employment and economic growth. Employment intensity is estimated to range from 0.31 to 0.61 ...

This study focuses on the employment effects of military spending versus alternative domestic spending priorities, in particular investments in clean energy, health care and education. We first present some simple alternative spending scenarios, namely devoting $1 billion to the military versus the same amount of money spent on clean energy, health care, and education, as well as for tax cuts w...

L I Q U I D A T I O N OF T H E Work Projects Administration was ordered by the President on December 4, 1942, after a request for such action had been made by the agency. The order specified that all project operations were to be closed out by February 1, 1943, or as soon thereafter as possible. The agency was created by Executive Order on M a y 6, 1935, to operate in cooperation wi th local, S...

This paper shows how the potential for acquiring common sense knowledge from the web, outlined in Singh et al. (2002), can be realized automatically. We describe a system that has been designed to read the web and detect at least some of the kinds of common sense that volunteers have been contributing to Open Mind Common Sense (OMCS). This has at least two significant benefits: by obviating the...

Crowd employment platforms in Spain are a rather recent development. However, they have experienced remarkable growth during the economic crisis. The number of workers and clients has increased in the sectors already using crowd employment (including creative design), and the phenomenon has spread to other sectors such as housing and design, computing, book editing and translation (InfoCrowdsou...