suggest that employment growth is dampened by firms avoiding to exceed thresholds. In order to minimize these transaction …

reduce wages by 0.5 percentand employment by 1.6 percent, reflecting monopsonistic exploitation. In line with per …-fect competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightlyconcentrated labor markets. This effect weakens …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …

An analysis of European employment deficits using employment-population ratios shows that there exist unexhausted … employment potentials in many EU countries, in particular for older employees, but also for women and in the service sector. If … the EU-15 were to match the U.S. employment-population ratio, an additional 34 million people could be in work. The new EU …

men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One … implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …

plants, we investigate the effect of product market competition on the gender pay gap. Controlling for match fixed effects we …