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

). To achieve more and better employment (where 'better' depends on such factors as rate of pay, job security, employment … protections, and type of work), analysts and donors need to understand better how employment, growth, poverty and other factors … interact, how unemployment is caused, and how employment can be improved. At the same time, drawing on practical experience …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …

paper then presents new suggestive evidence to quantify the employment impacts of various counter-cyclical policies … introduced during this time. We conduct a counter-factual and find that employment would have been between 4.2 percent and 4 … Credits increased the likelihood of employment by about 4.7 percent for disconnected youth but had no effect on disabled and …

former prisoners: the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) and the Transitional Jobs Reentry … Demonstration (TJRD). The analysis assesses the effects of these programs on employment and recidivism. We find that the programs in … both studies led to a large increase in employment driven by the transitional jobs themselves. However, the programs did …

pattern is found both among young and older individuals. The employment of the lower-educated also varies more with variations …

This paper measures the 2007-13 evolution of employment tax rates in the U.K. and the U.S. The U.S. changes are greater …, in the direction of taxing a greater fraction of the value created by employment, and primarily achieved with new … employment during its "austerity" period. Tax rate measurements are a first ingredient for cross-country comparisons of labor …