Covid-19 pandemic and related employment protection policies on the labor market outcomes of recent university graduates. We … find that both males and females are less likely to be employed during the pandemic year, with more pronounced employment … losses for females. While gender differences in employment arise from females' high skill employment losses, becoming …

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large …, we find no negative employment effects. However, we show that the minimum wage increase may have caused an increase in … the share of informal employment among workers with less than tertiary education, especially for such workers working for …

shaped the impact of unanticipated economic reforms on employment in formal manufacturing firms in India in the 1990s, using …Development economists generally concur that the implications of economic reform for employment are influenced by an … average and ceteris paribus in the 1990-1997 period, declines in input tariffs were associated with increased employment in …

for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account … for the fact that employment is correlated across states. Such correlation may exist if a change in the minimum wage in a … state affects employment not only in its own state but also in other, neighboring states. The authors show that state …

research on the employment effect of minimum wages in SSA, but the few findings are consistent with the broad summary of global …. However, there is significant variation around this average finding - the employment elasticities are not constant nor linear …. Where increases in a minimum wage are large and immediate, this can result in employment losses, but more modest increases …

This paper examines the role of non-wage cost rigidities in slowing down employment creation by assessing the effect of … a policy aimed at fostering employment for women and young men introduced in Turkey in 2008. Exploiting a difference …-in-difference-in differences strategy, I assess the employment effect of the reduction in the employer contribution share of the social security …

This paper proposes a novel method for identifying and visualising key employment obstacles that may prevent … that governments use when designing and implementing activation and employment-support policies. In particular, it aims to … provide individual and household perspectives on employment problems, which may be missed when relying on common labour …

for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account … for the fact that employment is correlated across states. Such correlation may exist if a change in the minimum wage in a … state affects employment not only in its own state but also in other, neighboring states. The authors show that state …