There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on … insignificant negative effects on the employment retention rates of all adults and, most notably, male workers. Analysis of the … probability of employment retention across different hourly wage rates also show how sensitive this methodology can be to …

Collective bargaining in Germany takes place either at the industry level or at the firm level; collective bargaining … structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

the economic literature is that jobs created through this channel are of better quality and pay higher wages than jobs …

wages in new matches. I summarize microeconometric evidence on wages in new matches and show that the key model elasticities … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …

levels, which suggests these pay methods provide utility to workers in addition to that through higher wages. These findings …

, selective survey of the literature. Four fundamental questions are explored: how are unemployment, job vacancies, and employment …? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …