This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

of employment across countries and thus a change in the trade-off between wages and employment faced by wage setters …. While the effects of product market integration on the trade-off between wages and employment in general is ambiguous, it is … through trade. Unambiguously, real wages and employment and welfare improve upon reductions in trade frictions, and therefore …

employment protection, wage bargaining and work incentives) on the functioning of the labour market both theoretically and … employment problems but it is in line with the outcomes of many other economic studies. The reasons for the ambiguous effects of …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firming in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

effective minimum wage reduced employment among low-skilled, middle-aged female workers, but the mechanical effect associated …

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross …-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor …-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries is susceptible to a resource curse, and grows rapidly in response to …