of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … unemployment increases approximately 2 percentage points. We also document that the minimum wage hike does not generate a major … change in high school enrollment, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and …

higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

minimum wage (captured by the Kaitz index) in a panel setting. We find that the minimum wage raises unemployment among young …

. This critical value decreases with unemployment benefits and increases with workers' risk aversion. We also show that in …

the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … minimum wage may increase unemployment. There are no discernable effects of minimum wages on the wages of workers in small …

unemployment also constitutes an incentive to implement a tax on outsourcing. Without a direct instrument for taxing outsourcing …