, the minimum wage hikes increased wages modestly (3 percent) for workers in the affected sectors and modestly decreased … wages (1.5 percent) for workers in the unaffected sectors. The gains for the affected sectors are slightly larger at higher …

Using firm-level data for Georgia, the paper estimates the quasi-elasticity of employment and wages with respect to the … employment levels and average wages by gender and consider whether export destination or the competiveness of economies matters … improves female employment but reduces overall average wages and female wages. Increasing exports to the European Union as well …

wage is long overdue, due to decreasing nominal wages in real terms, policy needs to strike a fine balance between … protecting workers and ensuring that employment effects are not too large …

low and the economy is in a negative output gap. Evidence shows that employment has increased, mainly at the minimum wage …

impact of corruption on employment growth among private firms. Using firm-level survey data for 109 countries, the analysis … finds that corruption has a much larger negative impact on employment growth for firms that are financially constrained … the bribery rate brings about a decline in the annual growth rate of employment of financially constrained firms that is 2 …