, the employment rate of teenage workers rose, while their school enrollment rate fell …

associated with lower employment rates among natives and earlier immigrants, but with relatively small effects on the relative … wage structure. The estimates imply that immigrant arrivals between 1985 and 1990 depressed the employment rate of low …

models for the estimated program effect (for studies that model the probability of employment) and for the sign and …

We re-examine recent cross-state evidence on the employment effect of the minimum wage. A re-evaluation of the data … wage has an adverse effect on teenage employment. Neumark and Wascher's findings are shown to be due to an inadvertent …'s (1992a) conclusion that the 1990 increase in the Federal minimum had no adverse employment effect. Lastly, we find that …

Standard models suggest that adverse labor demand shocks will lead to bigger employment losses if institutional factors … explains the contrast between the United States, where real wages fell over the 1980s and aggregate employment expanded … vigorously, and Europe, where real wages were (roughly) constant and employment was stagnant. We test this hypothesis by …

. Employers and employees can also negotiate firm-specific contracts. We use a large matched employer-employee data set from Spain …