This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …

This paper  provides an assessment of economic growth, employment and poverty reduction in the Arab MENA region … employment and poverty impacts of growth are of particular concern to policy makers. In the short run for employment growth to be … faster than output growth the employment elasticity of growth has to be greater than unity. This is an important condition …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EUcountries, using micro data from the …

I study the role of company start-up costs for employment performance. The model is search equilibrium with a new … in equilibrium, career choice and job creation are jointly determined. Higher start-up costs reduce overall employment …

Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, anddepend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate amodel for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States,Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United StatesTFP growth explains the trend …

We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the "three worlds of welfare", Anglo …-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of the employment outcomes …. Anglo-Saxon low-support policies encourage more overall market employment. Continental transfer polilcies encourage more …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …