This paper provides a theoretical and quantitative analysis of various types of wellknown employment subsidies. Two … important questions are addressed: (i) How should employment subsidies be targeted? (ii) How large should the subsidies be? We …) improve employment and welfare, (b) do not raise earnings inequality and (c) are self-financing. This criterion enables us to …

Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …, preventing employment at low wages. This creates substantial unemployment of the low-skilled. This paper discusses the …

employment. We argue that the minimum wage will impact employment over time, through changes in growth rather than an immediate … drop in relative employment levels. We conduct simulations showing that commonly-used specifications in this literature … panels of administrative employment data, we find that the minimum wage reduces job growth over a period of several years …

since the mid-1990s, French unemployment and employment rates show stability or improvement as well as strong convergence to … worsening employment opportunities for vulnerable workers. Making work pay for the bottom third of the workforce should be a top …