A number of recent empirical studies have found no evidence that the minimum wage adversely affects employment. Explanations for such non-negative estimates include new theoretical approaches, empirical identification and data issues. In this paper we examine the robustness of such estimates to...

Hourly labor costs in the manufacturing sector of seven EC countries, the USA and Canada are used to test the factor price convergence (FPC) by employing Johansen’s multivariate cointegration tests. We also examine if there is a two‐way causality in wages between two groups of countries...

The results of an empirical study which has investigated the cost dynamics of a group of private warehouses is presented. Specifically the article tests the applicability of using a learning curve to plan and evaluate a private warehouse′s average labour cost per case performance. To test the...

Presents a new approach to working set generation for personnel scheduling problems. In full‐time (FT) and mixed‐workforce (MW) experiments, generates the schedules in the working sets from the use of two‐phase heuristic labour scheduling solution procedures. The solution procedures were...

Investigates an economic barrier for foreign affiliates in Japan, the high cost of local labour: to attract qualified workers, foreign affiliates must pay a basic wage premium and offer fewer hours of work over their Japanese counterparts, a factor which reduces cost flexibility and impairs...

There has been a historical shift in the employment relationship for many employees which is marked by an increasing insulation from the external market and the development of internal labour markets (ILM). Focuses on two important aspects which are indicative of an ILM, the mobility of labour...

Minimum wage fixing came to be increasingly questioned during the 1980s owing to high unemployment and the rise of liberal economic thinking. This led many countries to dilute minimum wage protection by freezing the rates or altering the coverage. However, close examination of the relevant...

Analyses the role of the Treuhand in promoting inward foreign direct investment, labour productivity and employment in the former East Germany. Argues that the Treuhand should concern itself not only with privatization but also with restructuring of the firms on its books. In the absence of...