This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant …

Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …

This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less …

in terms of increased full time employment and working hours. The findings also suggest that it is harder for the female … regional unemployment rate, we also find a substantial discouraged worker effect …

This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment … home-state unemployment rate. Comparing these estimates to realized losses in post-service civilian earnings resulting from … exiting the military during times of high unemployment suggests that mitigating factors (e.g., leisure, private and public …

This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We … that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed …

In many countries unemployed people are helped to become self-employed. Self-employment, however, does not necessarily … lead to success. Many leave self-employment after a short period and the economic outcome varies greatly. It is important … become self-employed. In the second part of the paper we study the economic outcome of self-employment in 2002 for Swedish …

The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …

across LFS histories: they are 25-30% among those currently out of the labor force (OLF) with recent employment, 10% among …