conventional view, we show that the effect of minimum wages on employment is ambiguous. …

that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …

relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of employment across times of the day …

suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …

, it delivers an expression for the employment rate and as side-products, a measure of the unemployment rate and the size … rationalizes differences in employment rates: in the U.S., we find a market productivity premium of +30% and market frictions of …

-moderation effect on domestic employment outweighs the direct substitution effect so that domestic employment increases in unionized … burden per worker constant continues to be good for employment. However, except for low outsourcing activities, the impact of …

working hours. When effortbased career opportunities are effective, they raise working time and output per worker reducing … promotion increases with working time and that this result is robust to various econometric specifications. …

France has experienced massive changes in its regulation of working time during the last decade. These changes generate …