This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … employment. These decisions are strongly interrelated: Firms that increased prices relatively more often also showed a less …-through appears to be key for explaining employment effects of minimum wages …

'Marginal employment', i.e. employment at low working hours and earnings not covered by social security, has been … matching techniques, we analyse the effects of marginal employment on future individual outcome variables such as unemployment …, regular employment and earnings. In addition to average treatment effects, we calculate dynamic and cumulative treatment …

expected benefits. By contrast, we find limited pass-through of employer SSCs to wages for reforms that increased SSCs with no …

impact of social security contributions on wages and employment …

cuts, both with or without over-education effects. Introducing over-education changes substantially the employment …

Employer-provided nonwage benefit expenditures now account for one-third of U.S. firms' labor costs. We show that a … to the conventional view that labor costs are procyclical. Using BLS establishment-job data, we find that even real wages …, the main focus of prior literature, have become countercyclical. Benefit expenditures are less rigid than nominal wages …

departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …

large sector-specific shocks. However, the latter shows much less labor reallocation because ERTEs were available to firms …