This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe …

retraining for new employment in the expanding sector. The paper derives an optimal welfare policy which combines the design of …

adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …

Since the middle of the 1980s many European countries have reduced the strictness of their employment protection mainly … by relaxing it for temporary jobs. These countries are Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands …, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The article explores the conditions of the reduction of employment protection and takes a closer …

firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that … minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from labor to capital, reduce employment growth and accelerate total …