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 …

relative to male wages, but female employment has fallen 5 percentage points more than male employment. Using the German Socio … of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this … employment of low earners can explain 80% of the rise in relative female wages. There is no evidence that reduction in child care …

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self …-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the … potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision …

has ex-post monopsonistic power that drives trained workers’ wages below the socially-optimal level. The emergence of …

This Paper presents strong evidence for the concavity of wages in job and worker characteristics by adding second order …. The impact of search frictions on wages is large. Our results relate to the literature on industry wage differentials, on …

analysis indicates how the changes can segment the labour market into an expanding sector of restructured firms where wages are … rising, a contracting sector of traditional firms where wages are relatively stagnant, and an expanding pool of the …; the widening dispersion of wages within occupational, educational, and job tenure groups in the United Kingdom and the …