We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …

This paper follows up recent work on the relationship between (un)employment and wage effects of social security … in Germany. The main result of the paper is that there is in fact a positive shortrun employment effect of a revenue … rates, but in the longerterm only modest effects remain due to higher wages. …

distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and … they prize complementarity in cognitive and interpersonal skills. The average return to VET skills in hourly wages is 9 …