This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …

This paper considers training, mobility decisions and wages together to test for the specificity of human capital … contained in continuing training courses. We empirically analyse the relationship between training, mobility and wages in two … ways. First, we examine the correlation between training and mobility. In a second step, we consider wage effects of …

the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI has positive effects on employment growth. The positive effect of job …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

This paper considers the effects of union-bargained minimum wages on transitions into and out of employment in the … non-negligible employment effects (except for teenagers during 1993–98). The evidence regarding decreasing minimum wages …

This paper studies the relationship between employment and wage structures in West Germany based on the IAB employment … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill … groups and between those of different age, taking account of the endogeneity of wages and employment. Compared to estimates …

Job mobility and employment durations can be explained by different theoretical approaches, such as job matching or … durations in the employment spell. Standard empirical techniques, such as hazard rate analysis, cannot deal with this problem …. In this paper, we apply censored quantile regression techniques to estimate employment durations of male workers in …