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 …

the period 1998-2004. Our results show that FDI has positive effects on employment growth. The positive effect of job …

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 …

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

a private equity buyout. Unemployment risk declines despite lower employment growth for continuing establishments … – attributable to hiring freezes rather than to layoffs – and a lack of change in firm level employment growth. A plausible …

the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to …