employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were … income as a result of the law. -- minimum wage ; South Africa ; wage ; employment ; hours of work …

evaluations of minimum wages for specific industries. The present paper discusses the empirical studies on the wage and employment … employment effects. Both the limited available data and general employment trends in this sector make such evaluation studies … employment effects of introducing a general minimum wage can be derived from the results of evaluations of sector …

In Germany, the number of women in relationships who are in gainful employment is on the rise. According to recent … for this development is the increasing shift of women out of unemployment and into part-time and marginal employment …, particularly in western Germany. In eastern Germany, where female employment and working hours have long been higher than in the …

Among the OECD countries, Spain faces one of the highest rates of self-employment and Denmark one of the lowest, being … barriers to start and operate a business. In this paper we analyze if the different institutional environment and employment … conditions in both countries can help to interpret the different incidence of self-employment rates. The study is carried out for …

market reform was launched in Estonia in 2009. The main idea of the New Employment contract was that the termination of … employment relations became less expensive for employers. Although empirical evidence show that the Employment Contracts Act …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them … urban poverty. -- living wages ; wages ; employment ; poverty …

last decade, it still accounts for almost a third of them, or around 800,000 people. Solo self-employment is frequently … only a temporary form of employment. Most solo entrepreneurs who cease trading take up dependent employment. This may be … partly because self-employment originally only represented a stopgap for them in the absence of alternative employment …

as a model for the European Employment Strategy and a much cited example of a real life flexicurity model. Like most … the Danish model to sustain external chocks. Some have further argued that Danish employment will be more vulnerable to … economic downturns due to the low level of employment protection legislation (EPL). These issues are in the focus of the …