We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature … found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation …

We use the UK Labor Force survey to investigate whether the socio-economic outcomes of people born on the 13th day of … by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …

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 …

agriculture, little is known about the changes within the rural agricultural sector. Yet, the agricultural sector continues to … account for a large share of employment. We study the determinants of transitions from subsistence farming into either formal … agricultural employment or agricultural self-employment. We pay particular attention to the role of capital endowments. We find …

How do financial development and financial integration interact? We focus on Japan's Great Recession after 1990 to … reference to prefectures' different historical pathways to financial development. After Japan's opening to trade in the 19th …, the main export hub for silk, provided silk reelers with trade loans. Many regional banks in Japan were founded as local …

We investigate the fiscal impacts of earthquakes in Japan. In contrast with earlier papers from elsewhere which examine …

This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the new EU-Japan free trade agreement (FTA), the biggest bilateral deal … that both the EU and Japan have concluded so far. It employs a generalized variant of the Eaton-Kortum (2002) model … reductions in the costs of NTBs. This approach yields long-run welfare effects for Japan of about 18 bn. USD per year (0.31% of …

the two World Wars. This paper focuses on Japan, which as a minor participant, was not directly affected by World War I … interventions (NPIs) in determining the economic impact of the pandemic. We do so by focusing on the production and employment in … Japan was at the time). We investigate the role of NPIs in ameliorating the economic costs for the sector during the …