Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …

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 …

meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …

the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … market. They are also more likely to start a self-employment activity. As a consequence of this upward mobility their income … increases or stays the same in response to immigration. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood to leave employment or to …

affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among … lead to higher hourly earnings among people who are employed but lower employment rates. Data from the Current Population … affected by minimum wage laws than other low-education natives, and their employment rates appear to increase when the minimum …