We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough … minimum wage. We find that movements in the American real minimum wage are associated with no employment effects, whereas …

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough … minimum wage. We find that movements in the American real minimum wage are associated with no employment effects, whereas …

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 …

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 …

optimal level of unemployment benefits, the funding of unemployment insurance and the impact of employment protection … models have deeply renewed the understanding of job search, job flows, job creations and destructions, unemployment and wage …