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 …

Using German data from the Institute for Employment Research Establishment Panel, this paper constructs two main … measures of outsourcing and examines their determinants and consequences for employment. There are some commonalities in the … correlates of the two measures of outsourcing, as well as agreement on the absence of adverse employment effects across all …

study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … wage are summarized in a ?menu? of minimum wage variables and used to estimate wage and employment effects. (2) An … employment decomposition that separately estimates the effect of the minimum wage on hours worked and on the number of jobs is …

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of … the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many … to represent the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage on wages or employment. Second, different minimum wage …

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 …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …

direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical … wage and employment. This paper estimates the employment effect of the minimum wage using a number of political variables … indicate that an increase in the minimum wage has very small adverse effects on employment. …

a dynamic treatment approach to estimate the effect of having the first child now versus later on future employment for … very strong negative employment effects after childbirth. Although the employment loss is reduced over the first five years … following childbirth, it does not level off to zero. The employment loss is lower for mothers with a university degree. It is …

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in … family structure with income pooling is less the norm, there are fewer opportunities for paid employment, and aggregate …