the market-clearing level must reduce employment. Empirical findings suggest, however, that this might not always be the … competitive labour market with friction. -- minimum wage and employment ; minimum wage paradox ; friction and search in the labour …

In the employment increase of 12 million of the European Union the number of part time employees accounted for nearly 6 … million between 2000 and 2006. A great number of countries try to support the distribution of part-time employment in order to … raise or maintain the level of employment and to organise the work and working time more efficiently and intensively …