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 … worker and firm heterogeneity. I find that minimum wages up to 70% of the median wage significantly increase productivity …

small impact on aggregate employment because (i) jobs are saved predominately in less productive firms that account for a … small share of employment and (ii) the grant induces a reallocation of resources away from larger and less impacted firms …

business growth, without crowding out male employment. By contrast, the tax cut does not raise net wages, suggesting that tax … that the payroll tax cut generates long-lasting growth in female employment, reduces the time spent on welfare, and spurs … labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

attachment. Exploiting variation in labor market tightness across metropolitan areas, we show that the employment of populations … the employment of less attached workers when the central bank follows an average inflation targeting rule and when the …

differently in a host country's labor market, we examine employment and wages for these groups over time after arrival. There is … in employment rates than it is in wages. We also discuss how refugees are distinct in terms of other factors affecting …

wages. We estimate a negative connection between establishments’ wage cyclicality and their employment cyclicality, thereby … cycle. While wages of the median establishment are moderately procyclical, 36 percent of establishments have countercyclical …

poor re-employment outcomes …