This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …

(DVA) and employment for 1995 and 2002. Total DVA generated by exports is obtained by subtracting all direct and indirect … imported intermediate goods from the gross value of exports, and total employment is obtained by adding all direct and indirect … employment generated by exports. To implement these estimations, we use hitherto unpublished Chinese government data to construct …

full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …

employment. A two-country model is used to demonstrate that the open economy dimension can enhance the ability of sticky price … from domestic goods. This causes a temporary decline in domestic employment. If the expenditure-switching effect is …

First moves towards a real understanding of the offshoring phenomenon date back to very recent times, with employment … analyses of the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 … presented here suggest that we can expect a positive effect of services offshoring on employment, and a positive effect of …

This paper estimates the possible effects of offshoring on Japanese employment. Both the positive and negative effects …

We explore the far-reaching implications of low-wage subsidies on skill formation, aggregate employment and welfare …. Low-wage subsidies have three important effects. First, they promote employment of low-skilled workers (who tend to be the … reduce the incentive to become skilled. So they increase the low-skilled labor force which faces a relatively low employment …

in the probability of having a good quality employment for the case of men in the 1996, whereas for year 2003, this …