, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …Policy debates about the balance of vocational and general education programs focus on the school-to-work transition …

provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker’s network of former coworkers on his re-employment …

. Intriguingly, returns to skills are systematically lower in countries with higher union density, stricter employment protection …

incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective …, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer …

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

Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be … driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of …

We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization … economic reform, economic growth and, with a delay, on investment and institutional change. Episode of high inflation, moreover …, translate into lower subsequent inflation. Crises thus appear to serve as catalysts of reform and institutional change and lead …