We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

-72, including women. In addition, minimum wage hikes are associated with an increase in informal employment. …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South … Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from …/17 and difference-in-difference models, our results show that employment decreased by approximately 14 percentage points …

affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that … increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled low-wage workers, and increases the …

the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of ….29% in the average wage and a reduction in employment of -0.46%. We find that increases in the private sector minimum wage …

reduce wages by 0.5 percentand employment by 1.6 percent, reflecting monopsonistic exploitation. In line with per …-fect competition, sectoral minimum wages lead to negative employment effects in slightlyconcentrated labor markets. This effect weakens …, theresults lend empirical support to the monopsony argument, implying that conventionalminimum wage effects on employment conceal …

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 …

the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … legislation did not seem to have had any impact on the extensive margin in terms of employment opportunities or the probability of …