boost profits. With much of the cost adjustment falling on firms’ wage bills, employment losses were largest in countries …This paper argues that the large differences among EU countries in post-crisis employment performance are to a large … countries but not in others. To close the large gaps between saving and investment, firms reduced investment and cut costs to …

crisis had a larger negative impact on firms with greater reliance on external financing, and firms with higher sensitivity … to aggregate demand and exports. Firms with more foreign currency debt also had larger declines in sales, although their … investment or profits did not differ significantly from other firms. …

employment in low-wage firms than in high-wage firms. Our results are robust for different treatment groups, sample attrition …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 …

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 …