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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859469
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants´ Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859657
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860469
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should betargeted. We contrast measures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862794
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Minimum Wages and Employment
Neumark, David; Wascher, William L. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in theUnited States and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863330
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Employment Protection Reforms, Employment and theIncidence of Temporary Jobs in Europe : 1995–2001
Kahn, Lawrence M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
employment protection systems on employment and ontemporary jobs for wage and salary workers. Individual fixed effects models are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860772
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861190
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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back toWork: Employment Services or Small-BusinessAssistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania
Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-businessassistance programmes are often …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861856
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Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption toLow-Skill Labor Markets
Mazzolari, Francesca; Ragusa, Giuseppe - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have beenincreasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such asfood preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of homeproduction activities. Meanwhile the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861858
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Firms and Early Retirement:Offers That One Does Not Refuse
Bellmann, Lutz; Janik, Florian - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
According to the Hutchens (1999) model, early retirement is not explained as a result ofmaximizing expected individual utility but rather as a demand-side phenomenon arising froma firm’s profit-maximizing behaviour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862580