Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to …, previous research on the issue has been limited by the paucity of long data sets for firm operations. We examine employment … from domestic ones. Employment growth is relatively high in foreign-owned establishments, although foreign firms own …

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …

This paper studies how a special wage increase for assistant nurses in Sweden affected income and employment. Workers … similar employment and income levels before the agreement was reached. Assistant nurses see higher increases in labor income …

In Sweden, as in many other countries, marginal groups tend to be overrepresented in non-standard employment. A … decomposition of the employment rate of full-time workers on permanent contracts reveals that non-standard employment contributes to … employment figures alone. Our econometric analysis shows that the negative wage premia associated with fixed-term employment are …

, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …

and employment growth that followed the deep economic crisis in Sweden in the early 1990s. In the 1970s and 1980s, Sweden … firms substantially contributed to productivity and employment growth during this period, which suggests that the …

In this study I present empirical evidence that employment in family firms is less sensitive to performance and product … their employees implicit employment protection. Family firms are believed to have longer time horizons, and are as owners … terms of adjusting their employment. I confirm previous findings that family firms are less sensitive to sales fluctuations …

mobility. Using detailed data on all individuals and firms registered in Sweden, we study whether parental exposure to robots …'s outcomes in adulthood. We find that occupational exposure to robots is associated with lower income mobility for children …. Based on a shift-share IV approach, we show that the lower intergenerational income mobility originates from industry …