We analyse the impact of unemployment benefits and minimum wages using an equilibrium search model, which allows for … estimation method uses readily available aggregate data on marginal distributions of unemployment durations as well as wages and …

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

In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need … different countries?; (iii) To what extent do minimum wages have the adverse consequences that standard analysis predict?; (iv …) Are there strong theoretical grounds underlying the revisionist results?; (v) Who supports minimum wages?; (vi) Under …

-sharing due to search frictions implies that ‘good’ jobs which have higher creation costs must pay higher wages. This wage … number of good jobs. Minimum wages and unemployment insurance encourage workers to wait for higher wages, and therefore … composition of jobs improves considerably in response to higher minimum wages and more generous unemployment benefits. …

1990s affected the labour market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall by between 1.4% and 2.3% as a result of a …

the training and wages of full-time men. We explore the extent to which the data are consistent with the predictions of … employers. Our fixed effects estimates reveal that this training is associated with higher wages in current and in future firms …