including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an …

suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of … the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many … to represent the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage on wages or employment. Second, different minimum wage …

. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are … hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum wage, there is less than a handful studies on its profit effects … contributes to the literature by offering an input to the recent debate over the direction of employment effects of the minimum …

employment effects, accounting for sorting into the formal and informal sectors. The data used is a monthly Brazilian household … survey from 1982 to 2000 at individual and regional levels. The formal and informal sectors employment effects were both …

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 …

contribution to the controversial recent debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect …. Employment might not be affected if firms are able to pass through to prices the higher labour costs associated to a minimum wage …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …