This paper analyses recruitment practices to Samhall, a state-owned company that provides sheltered employment for … individuals with severe work disabilities. Besides providing employment for disabled workers and rehabilitating them to employment …

This paper considers the effects of union-bargained minimum wages on transitions into and out of employment in the … non-negligible employment effects (except for teenagers during 1993–98). The evidence regarding decreasing minimum wages …

relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … hours among manual workers in the Swedish retail sector over the period 2001–05. The findings indicate that increases in …

Differential enforcement of employment protection by explicit design of the legislation, for example through exemptions …, indicating an increase in employment turnover. A salient feature of the results is that the estimated effects increase with the …

, effort or the quality of applicants, employers who consider such cuts as employment-enhancing tend to not agree. …

This article surveys the literature and adds to the evidence on the impact of employment protection legislation on … employment. While stringent employment protection contributes to less turnover and job reallocation, the effects on aggregate … employment and unemployment over the business cycle are more uncertain. Exploitation of partial reforms and the use of micro data …