study the labour market effects of public sector employment and wages. Public sector wages plays an important role in … the optimal policy can increase the volatility of unemployment significantly. Public sector wage and employment shocks … it. Hiring more people can increase or decrease the unemployment rate. All shocks raise the wage and crowd out employment …

context. These include collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection laws, unemployment insurance (UI), mandated … loosening employment protections while providing relatively generous UI benefits with strict job search requirements holds out …

We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …

This paper defines informal sector employment and decomposes the difference in earnings distributions between formal … Machado and Mata (2005), we find a significant informal employment wage premium across the whole earnings distribution. This … seems to be the case that the informal employment in Tajikistan is the main source of income …

(1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection … into fulltime employment. However, we show that selection-corrected wages of male and female workers at the lower half of … of the male full-time employment force over time, which in spite of the rather constant male full-time employment rate …