sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare … provision, improved paternity leave and greater transparency on wage gaps within firms. It is unclear, however, if these …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

sizeable overall effect on pay. External control matters for pay - firms with lower levels of institutional ownership have …

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time … too. We note that the number of trading firms diminishes as the number of export destinations or import origins increases …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …

investment and innovation, with a focus on support for small firms (particularly in accessing finance and expertise), key sectors …