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 … input, high worker turnover and binding minimum wages. The empirical approach identifies workers affected by real minimum …

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with … real minimum wages are associated with more separations, whereas hours are less affected because separated workers put in …

Centralized wage-setting institutions compress relative wages. Motivated by this fact, we investigate the effects of … centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … distribution and their evolution over time to the structure of relative wages between and within industries. The empirical results …

. With a vertical decomposition of the firm's activities, whether there is substitution or complementarity between employment … substitutionary relationship between employment in the Swedish parts of the firms and employment in other high-income locations, but … we do not find any evidence of substitution stemming from employment in low-income locations. We find mainly a …

This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees …

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