interesting gross effects that influence the wage distribution. We find that both composition effects due to gender, education and …

. We find that composition effects derived from changes in age, gender or education of the labour force, largely exogenous …

sector employment and wages on the labour market, particularly on private sector wages. Our empirical evidence shows that the … growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover …

adjustment costs and indivisibility of labor in the employment stickiness of manufacturing firms with less than 75 employees …. When small firms have to adjust employment in units of at least one employee, indivisibility becomes an important source of … explains around 50% of the stickiness of employment, adjustment costs explain the other 50%. JEL Classification: E24 …

worsens. Moreover, robust results across the regression scenarios show that higher employment protection and minimum wages … indicate that the increasing share of services employment in total employment is helping to reduce unemployment among young …

-time employment across many euro area countries, whilst increasing European employment rates, have contributed to the downward trend …