This paper studies the main factors that explain the low regional mobility in Spain, with a view to identifying policy … market conditions, and the pervasiveness of labor market duality at the regional level are the main determinants for Spain …

force, and employment for five educational groups (ranging from the illiterate to the college-educated) over 1964-92 for the …

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … industries, import competition actually strengthens employment growth. In addition, import competition tends to improve average …

This paper examines the regional distribution of public employment in Italy and documents two sets of facts. The first … is the use of public employment as a subsidy from the North to the less wealthy South. We calculate that about half of … the wage bill in the South of Italy can be identified as a subsidy, with both the size of public employment and wage …

.S. manufacturing industry, and it finds evidence of asymmetry. Tight policy increases job destruction and reduces net employment …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … trade prices for 1980–90. Previous studies have concentrated mainly on the impact of changes in import prices on employment … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in …

employment when industries are finely disaggregated (450 manufacturing industries). However, this affect disappears at more …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … negative impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum … wage on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …