This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant. …

of COVID-19. This occasional paper assesses the impact of this crisis on key labour market variables, such as (un-)employment …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment … increases particularly in non-tradable sectors in the short run. At the same time, unemployment drops while individual wages do …

: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment … increases particularly in non-tradable sectors in the short run. At the same time, unemployment drops while individual wages do …

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to … to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s … related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors …

In this article I set out to present the situation in terms of unemployment rate, the number of registered unemployed … but also the share of unemployed nationwide in the period 2020-2021. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the unemployment rate … state with a technical unemployment benefit, which led to the highest unemployment rate in the last two years, resulting in …

This paper studies the impact of an unemployment protection legislation reform - a substitution between an experience … rated tax and firing costs - on the level and structure of unemployment by skills. In this purpose, we consider a matching … free entry condition and the tax rate aimed at financing unemployment benefits results from a balanced budget constraint …