. Most studies find modest adverse effects of the minimum on employment so that the minimum raises the total income of low … there as well. (4) Employment protection regulations and related laws shift output and employment to informal sectors and … reduce gross labor mobility. (5) Mandated benefits increase labor costs and reduce employment modestly while the costs of …

Employment is key to combating poverty. Thus, detractors of social assistance programs argue that they create … jury is still out with respect to their impact on formal employment. This paper exploits an unannounced change in the … eligibility rule of the Bolsa Familia program in Brazil, one of the oldest and largest conditional cash transfers in the world, to …

low and the economy is in a negative output gap. Evidence shows that employment has increased, mainly at the minimum wage …

protecting workers and ensuring that employment effects are not too large …