In this study we examine the contribution of severance pay to employment and unemployment development using data on … indication of adverse effects for (the three) other employment outcomes identified here. Moreover, with the possible exception of …

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990 … mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and …

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …

We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum … given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant …-and-bar sector, after controls for trends in sector employment at the county level are incorporated in the model. Employment in this …

This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county … the evidence suggests modest (but robust) positive employment effects. One explanation we consider for these 'perverse …

Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering … more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we … determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than regular employment, or the alternative of continued job search …

-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential …

handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of …