dynamics of employment and unemployment in order to identify key issues for the sources of the malfunctioning of these labour … passive labour market policies, and the structure of employment and output. …

-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the … find that those who earn near-minimum wages are disproportionately female, unmarried and young, without post …

reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new … micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained …

communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996) and in late/post-transition (2002). We show: dramatic increases in returns to … returns to education obtained during communism vs. transition; no change in wage-experience profiles over time; and similar … the planners did; all the adjustment occurred in early transition and was driven by market forces rather than private …

We use longitudinal individual wage, hours, and employment data to investigate the effect of the February 1, 1982 … employment losses vary between 2% and 4%, depending on the methodology or the data used. Furthermore, we show that minimum wage …

for employment protection, provided it is uniform across workers and not specifically higher for older workers. It …

high wages), and if few good jobs are available, workers have little incentive to acquire skills. In this context, the …