This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time … series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of … employment adjustment. Second, a much shorter time series of firm data is used to check the persistence detected at aggregate …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …

Empirical investigation of the labor market consequences of employment protection has mushroomed since Lazear's (1990 … mainly on dismissals protection, distinguishing between the themes of employment and unemployment development and labor … market dynamics proper. Our discussion of employment and unemployment largely deals with the effect of employment protection …

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using … overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper … investigates whether such considerations call into question findings of statistically insignificant employment effects reported in …

seeming constant in the Anglophone countries: unions at the workplace are associated with reduced employment growth of around … representation - on employment change, 1993-2001. Works council plants have 2 to 3 percent lower employment growth having controlled …. That said, works councils do not seem to further slow the tortuous pace of employment adjustment in Germany …

This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time … series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of … employment adjustment. Second, a much shorter time series of firm data is used to check the persistence detected at aggregate …

This paper examines the pattern of employment adjustment in Portugal. First, the issue is addressed using a long time … series of aggregate data. Although the employment data show persistence, there is nonetheless a fairly rapid rate of … employment adjustment. Second, a much shorter time series of firm data is used to check the persistence detected at aggregate …

Summary measures of the overall strictness of a country's employment protection laws have proven popular constructs in … the UK. Our one-step error-correction model indicates that Portugal palpably displays a higher speed of employment … legislation would imply. In conjunction whit its low employment-output elasticity, there results a fairly rapid convergence to the …