Lithuania. Our identification strategy leverages variation in workers’ exposure to the new minimum wage, and exploits the fact … negative effects on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. However, we provide suggestive evidence that young workers … employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of -0.021, and an own-wage elasticity of -0.033, suggesting that wage …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated parental leave, and …

employment by 10 per cent within five years and to cut down unemployment by more than a fourth. This paper investigates what …

possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …

and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the …

-factor productivity, capital deepening and employment) for an almost complete set of OECD countries, ii.) non-linear results on how …