earnings and riskier employment prospects. However, they may also have stronger incentives to train and upgrade their skills …

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 …

possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers … differences in the employment behavior of East and West German mothers. German family policy sets incentives particularly for low … employment differences as East German women with low earnings potentials appear to adopt West German low employment patterns over …

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 …

by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …