The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

We estimate the employment and labour force participation effects resulting from the abolition of the marital allowance … from the Greek LFS over the period 2008:Q1-2016:Q1 we do not find any differential change in the probability of employment …

, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …

negative effects on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. However, we provide suggestive evidence that young workers … employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of -0.021, and an own-wage elasticity of -0.033, suggesting that wage … gains dominated employment losses. …

This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

, without reducing relative employment in low‐wage regions within the first two years. …

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …