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 …

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 …

in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax …

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 …

Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment … bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages - and be harmful to employment - when bargaining follows the …

effect of reducing employment in small firms as well as what these firms offer their workers. Thus, if there are only small …

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 …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …