This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …

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

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 …

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 …

In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product … their employees implicit employment protection. Family firms are believed to have longer time horizons, and are as owners … terms of adjusting their employment. I confirm previous findings that family firms are less sensitive to sales fluctuations …

centralized wage setting on the industry distribution of employment. We examine Sweden's industry distribution from 1960 to 1994 … distribution. The compression associated with centralized wage-setting shifted the industry distribution of Swedish employment in …

What were the asserted complementarities between the welfare state and full-employment policies, and why do these …