We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …

. Most studies find modest adverse effects of the minimum on employment so that the minimum raises the total income of low … distributions there as well. 4) Employment protection regulations and related laws shift output and employment to informal sectors … and reduce gross labor mobility. 5) Mandated benefits increase labor costs and reduce employment modestly while the costs …

when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and …. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual … simulations to understand how trade affects economic outcomes in the presence of informality. We show that: (1) Trade openness …

This paper studies the relationship between trade liberalization and informality. It is often claimed that increased … 1980's and 1990's, Brazil and Colombia, we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we … find no evidence of a relationship between trade policy and informality. In Colombia, we do find evidence of such a …

: generating a sufficient number of jobs at reasonable wages to absorb their rapidly growing populations into productive employment … of the principal effects of population growth on labor supply and employment in the developing economies of the world. On … population growth, labor supply, employment shifts, and growth of output per worker are presented and discussed.The key result of …

major policies: (a) workplace safety and health; (b) employer-provided pensions; (c) minimums; and (d) employment and pay …

Why is the employment effect of the minimum wage frequently found to be close to zero? Theory tells us that when wages … - where wages are more likely to be below marginal productivity - experience significantly more positive employment effects … from the minimum wage. While increases in the minimum wage are found to significantly decrease employment of workers in low …