-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient statistics shows that a minimum wage is desirable if the social welfare …

Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production. This phenomenon has replaced … routine and mostly physical work of blue collar workers, but it has also created positive employment spillovers in other …

employees and self-employed workers, unemployment rates and value added per capita account for more than half of the negative …

We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible … sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms of working-time flexibility reduce the length of workers’ breaks. For … part-time work, these positive effects are globally counterbalanced. Yet arrangements that allow workers to decide when to …

substantial overall benefits of expanding apprenticeship training, in particular when the supply of trained workers increases in … across sectors, where firms in sectors with high skill requirements tend to avoid training apprentices, while firms in low …-skill sectors seek apprentices. Guided by these reduced-form findings, we structurally estimate firms' training costs. Especially in …