towards non-regular employment despite women’s high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …Both Japan and Korea are trying to boost female labor force participation (FLFP) as they face the challenges of a …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum wage … on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

We examine the impact of uncertainty on employment dynamics. Alternative measures of uncertainty are constructed based … price index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment …-existent or weaker. Our results suggest that to truly understand the effects of uncertainty on employment dynamics, we need to …