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 …

implied by new unemployment claims: we estimate 20 million lost jobs by April 8th, far more than jobs lost over the entire … rise in the unemployment rate over the corresponding period to be surprisingly small, only about 2 percentage points. Third …

preferences for public sector employment and employers. In fixed effects specifications, we demonstrate that feelings of job … insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …

market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …

context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences … often adopted in regions with higher digital capital. But digital capital smoothed the employment shock beyond the effect of …

In the past decades unemployment in the Netherlands has gone down substantially. The main suspects responsible for this … unemployment rate in the Netherlands has increased somewhat. However, since the huge decline in unemployment was due to structural … improvements in the functioning of the labor market there is not a lot of reason to worry about the recent rise in unemployment …

in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …

Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …