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 … determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude … but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … - the last labor force survey available - indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These … effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The …

Employer mandates and other labor demand/supply shocks typically have small effects on wages and employment. These … effects should be more discernible using data on employment transitions and wages among new hires rather than incumbents. The …

entire (infinite) sequence of wages. We conclude that the speed of adjustment of employment, that is higher in the … employment and wages only in the no-commitment case, i.e., the higher the relevance of adjustment costs the higher the wage and … therefore the smaller the level of employment in the long run. Commitment on the part of the union leads to lower wages, and …

employment effects, accounting for sorting into the formal and informal sectors. The data used is a monthly Brazilian household … survey from 1982 to 2000 at individual and regional levels. The formal and informal sectors employment effects were both …

immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …