Presents a theoretical approach to analysing the effects of minimum wages on employment which is intended to conform … effects of minimum wages on employment. The model has the desirable property of not only allowing for the negative effect … pieces of work. Examines the employment effects of the industry‐level system of minimum wages which operated in the UK until …

particular, sluggish employment growth – but also helps firms to generate innovation, productivity growth and sustainable …Characteristic successes of Germany’s social market economy include both stability and productivity growth, yet mass … competitive advantage. This implies the need for a renewed “social contract”, in which consensus not only generates productivity …

Until now there has been surprisingly little research on the causes of and the remedies for skills obsolescence. This … study tries to fill that gap to some extent by analysing the relation between risk factors and skills obsolescence. Moreover …, the role remedies play to counter skills obsolescence is analysed. Four empirical analyses that relate skills obsolescence …

and interactive dummy terms to identify the most significant determinants of the changing demand for occupational skills … most statistically robust relationships. This methodology extends the analysis of occupational employment shares beyond the …

Investigates changes in skilled and unskilled employment over the 1980s using UK data skills from the Labour Force … findings are: that there was a rise in on‐manual wage and employment shares over the 1980s but only a slight rise in that of …

the principal issues for all countries is how these new technologies will affect employment and the composition of skills … diffused around the world? How much do they reduce, or increase employment? And do they reduce, or increase, the skills … technologies, new organizations of production, changing employment conditions and the development of new sectors of production, the …

The change in the share of skilled occupations in total employment is broken down into changes in the skill intensities … of industries weighted by their shares in employment, changes in the shares of industries in employment weighted by their …

with information on the skills and characteristics which would be demanded resultant from an expansion of the local economy … in both public and private activity. Much evidence emerged to show that a likely mismatch exists between the skills of … the unemployed and the skills required by an expanding local economy.  …