This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …

In 1998 the Slovenian UI system was drastically reformed. The reform reduced the potential duration of unemployment …

Welfare reform has transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Although there … remains substantial uncertainty about the importance of reform in producing the subsequent decline in the welfare caseload … employment and welfare recidivism comparing cohorts of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare …

of leavers prior to and after welfare reform. We find that after welfare reform leavers are much more likely to be … working. Although in Maryland those working have earnings that are somewhat below employed leavers prior to reform, in … substantially, and leavers are less likely to return to welfare following reform. …

moderation and working time flexibility. While at the outset of this reform sequence German had a small, but relatively …

taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less … on wages takes place during the first year of the reform. Our simulations also show that the increase in wages is mostly …