We present an applied general equilibrium modelling approach to analyse employment and unemployment effects of labour …

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 …

This paper estimates the effect of payroll tax cuts on firm-level employment and balance-sheet outcomes during economic … Great Recession, we estimate that the payroll tax cuts had limited effects on employment and balance-sheet outcomes of firms … by the previously enacted payroll tax cuts in treated firms. These employment effects are exacerbated for men and low …

ethnic identity on the immigrants’ employment outcomes. Using rich survey data from France and relying on a polychoric … identities. The paper investigates the impact of the ethnic identity measures on the employment outcomes of immigrants in France …. The results show that having multiple identities improves the employment outcomes of the migrants and contribute to help …

the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. From a theoretical point of view, higher progressivity induces a … wage-moderation effect and increases overall employment since employment of low-paid workers is more responsive. We test … average wage, we show that a more progressive taxation reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These …

establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …

Although widely regarded as a textbook case of a rigid economy, in the late 1990s France was able to increase … employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what …

local prices start rising. With this backdrop this paper explores how rising local prices are likely to affect employment in … employment increase are very much different between the short and the long run. We discuss such mechanisms and results in a …