study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … wage are summarized in a “menu” of minimum wage variables and used to estimate wage and employment effects. (2) An … employment decomposition that separately estimates the effect of the minimum wage on hours worked and on the number of jobs is …

The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …

providing knowledge about the nature of (un)employment and current policy measures, a number policy measures are proposed to …

reacts to regional employment shocks in a variety of cases. Shock responses are channelled via changes in unemployment …

This paper provides a preliminary analysis of the employment and occupational assimilation of recent immigrant waves to … Earnings Structure Survey, we find evidence of immigrant employment and occupational assimilation significantly varying by … gender, origin and educational attainment. For instance, EU15 immigrants do not display an employment or occupational gap …

significantly changed wage setting and employment relations in both sectors - increasing decentralisation in collective bargaining … and enforcing a "privatisation" of public sector employment contracts - we present new estimates of the public …