raise local wages and employment for native employees. For low-skilled foreign workers we find negative size effects …

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

There is an apparent inconsistency in the existing literature on graduate employment in the UK. While analyses of rates … supply of graduates, the literature on over-education suggests that many graduates are unable to find employment in graduate … that the employment of graduates in non-graduate jobs has declined over time. Hence, there is no evidence of an over …

employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and … employment problems but it is in line with the outcomes of many other economic studies. The reasons for the ambiguous effects of …

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

and employment of welfare recipients in Maryland and Missouri, 1991-2004. We find that there has been only modest change … in the observable characteristics of those entering, remaining on or leaving welfare, but the importance of employment … has grown for each of these groups. We also examine the dynamics of employment and welfare recidivism, comparing cohorts …