determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …

evaluations of minimum wages for specific industries. The present paper discusses the empirical studies on the wage and employment …-specific minimum wages to date. -- minimum wage ; wage distribution ; employment construction sector … employment effects. Both the limited available data and general employment trends in this sector make such evaluation studies …

employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … increase in real hourly wages in the post-law period in four of the five sectors examined. Our results also suggest that whilst … intensive margin in certain sectors. We also find that in three of the five sectors, increases in real hourly wages were …

negative shocks, while the impact on Hispanics’ wages is unclear. A theory of job search suggests two opposite …

effect on employment growth in the Greek manufacturing sector. However, it strengthens the effect of exports, new …

This paper studies long-term trends of self-employment in Chile. Self-employment is associated with poor job conditions …, vulnerability, and instability or informal labor market. Contrary to what is expected, self- employment level does not respond to … macroeconomic variables. Using forty-one cross sections of the longest Employment Survey available, we show that there is little …

This paper develops and tests a mechanism by which job security affects the age-composition of employment. This … with a substantial decline in the wage employment-to-population rate of young workers. In contrast, we do not find such a … decline in young self-employment rates or in the wage employment rates of older workers. Comparing results for men and women …

ein niedrigeres Einkommen als zuvor in abhängiger Beschäftigung. -- entrepreneurship ; self-employment ; start-ups …

Industrial decline and restructuring in the transition economies presents a prime example of the relationship between … employment in Romania from 1993 to 1995. The data show not only a large drop in aggregate industry employment, but also a decline …