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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a … employment - depending on the subsidies' incidence - and income effects. Wage subsidies also allow a more equal income …

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

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … force behind both recent reductions in U.S. manufacturing employment and — through input-output linkages and other general …

quantitative importance of fiscal foresight. We investigate whether JCTCs affect employment growth before, at, and after the time … difference-in-difference regression framework applied to monthly panel data on employment, the JCTC effective and legislative …