employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …

We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers …. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment … intensity increases the likelihood of leaving unemployment for regular jobs. Our results show that agency employment is even …

employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

pension payments. Therefore, such accounts make unemployment less attractive, intensify job search, and raise employment. In … the present paper the wage and employment consequences of UISAs are investigated in a model of collective wage … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs. …

and employment of welfare recipients in Maryland and Missouri, 1991-2004. We find that there has been only modest change … in the observable characteristics of those entering, remaining on or leaving welfare, but the importance of employment … has grown for each of these groups. We also examine the dynamics of employment and welfare recidivism, comparing cohorts …

analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained … associated with significant employment losses that are concentrated among marginal and low- and semi-skilled full-time workers …

participation, employment and disposable income. In contrast to earlier studies, we are able to capture both entry and exit effects … recipients reduces overall welfare participation and increases employment. We also find that mandatory activation programs appear …

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage … points and an increase of between 2.7-5.9 points in the share of self-employment. …

In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal … feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility … decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer system which differs by employment state and number of children. To …