technology adopters relative to non-adopters. Depending on the type of technology, we find evidence for improved employment …

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major … wage rigidity translated into higher wage growth mainly among workers with wages close to the floors. Consequently, these … workers experienced a substantial and highly persistent increase in the probability of non-employment but only if they were …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

We analyze the economic factors which have contributed to the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled … of intensified international competition and skill?biased technological change on the relative employment and earnings … is rather low. The decline in the employment share of unskilled workers attributable to an inflexible earnings structure …

We analyze the dramatic decline of the employment share of unskilled labor in the West German economy, in particular … earnings of unskilled workers could have contributed to the stabilization of their relative employment level. In other sectors … of the economy, the decline in the skills ratio, i.e. the employment share of unskilled relative to skilled workers …

-losses or employment effects - a mistake that is done often in the public debate. Thirdly, the chapter develops scenarios on how …