employment and on wages, implying a labor demand elasticity for young workers at around –0.31. Since the tax reduction applied … way to boost employment for young individuals. …

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

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 …

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 …

The theoretical predictions of how employment protection affects firm productivity are ambiguous. In this paper I study … the effect of employment protection rules on labor productivity using micro data on Swedish firms. A reform of the … employment protection rules in 2001 made it possible for small firms with less than eleven employees to exempt two workers from …

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 …

affect the volatility of employment, or rather, the wage elasticity of labor demand. We analyze whether the wage elasticity …

, as they suggest that in order to increase local employment levels, municipalities should target high tech employers with …

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 …