Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …

mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990 …

-ended work ; employment continuity ; unemployment ; inactivity …Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering … more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we …

-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential …/consulting work ; regular open-ended employment ; earnings development …

Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the … pursued by the jobless for their short- and medium-term employment stability. At first sight, it appears that taking an offer … of regular employment provides the greatest degree of employment continuity for the jobless. However, closer inspection …

involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed unemployment duration in the reservation wage equation. Our analysis … duration coefficient suggests that higher reservation wages negatively influence the probability of exiting unemployment …. -- reservation wages ; unemployment duration ; control function …

duration is associated with substantially higher quarterly rates of job finding in the range 53 to 106 percent. -- Unemployment … benefits ; unemployment duration ; job search …

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and … periodicity of the resulting job match. Emphasis is accorded the role of the public employment service. Despite its frequency as a … search vehicle, the state employment agency is shown to have a low hit rate, and to lead to lower-paying, shorter …

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination … states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a … unemployment. Although we do not reject the null of proportionality, abandoning the proportionality assumption does not materially …