on the positive and negative effect of intra-firm exports and imports respectively, on aggregate employment. The former …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

falls in the trend employment-population ratio. The recent shift in the Beveridge Curve during the Great Recession is …

foreign direct investment in Central Europe may have helped the relatively favourable employment and earnings record of the … production. Employment and wages diverged considerably within the German automobile industry. Relative to skilled workers, the …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … that it reproduces the cross-sectional distribution of workweeks across plants and households and some features of the … sharing and the Full flexibility scenarios. She finds that the 2012 reform preserves employment and generates a 1.72% increase …

microfounded model of searching workers and firms, calibrate it to Germany and perform the policy experiment of implementing the … full Danish flexicurity set of policies (low employment protection, high unemployment benefits and workfare). Our results …

employment. A two-country model is used to demonstrate that the open economy dimension can enhance the ability of sticky price … from domestic goods. This causes a temporary decline in domestic employment. If the expenditure-switching effect is …