To improve the employment rates and earnings of Americans workers, we need to create more coherent and effective … with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …

granted to all low-wage earners regardless of their employment history and are of limitless duration. Our analysis indicates … workers are (i.e. the more their wages rise with employment duration), the more effective will unemployment vouchers be … relative to low-wage subsidies. Conversely, the greater the danger that workers come to be trapped in dead-end jobs with flat …

inequality through a relative increase in the wages at the upper parts of an establishment’s wage distribution. …

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

economic turmoil in 1992-1995. Despite the catastrophic fall in GDP employment contracted only marginally. This flexibility has … been achieved mainly through the informalization of employment, and through the reallocation of labor towards small … of the Georgian labor force relies on self-employment as the primary means to earn an income. For some, this is an avenue …

flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition …

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 …

away from existing jobs is another key determinant of equilibrium, because a worker with an existing job has a better … their employers, a sign of wage posting. We find that another third bargained over pay before accepting their current jobs …. And about 40 percent of workers could have remained on their earlier jobs at the time they accepted their current jobs. …

to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the labour market and how employment and unemployment have been … to employment. We also examine a number of questions about the impact of globalization that respondents across many …

of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment … effectiveness in terms of reducing inequalities and creating employment. As policies aiming to promote self-sufficiency, wage …