the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … the average wage and a reduction in employment of -0.46%. There is evidence that increases in the private sector minimum … wages on the wages workers in smallfirms or the self-employed. Separate estimates of the wage and employment effects for …

This paper examines the determinants of employment changes using a panel of Polish large firms during the period 1996 …-2001. We investigate the impact of wages, output growth, investment, firm size and sectors upon employment, focusing on the … asymmetry hypothesis. We find that investment plays an important role in enhancing employment growth. We also notice that …

implications of offshore outsourcing. In the first two essays, I use structural models to analyze the size of employment changes … aggregate employment effect is negative. The numerical analysis, however, shows that the negativity of the aggregate effect is … caused by the cleansing effect, and that the employment responses of outsourcers are ambiguous. In the second essay, firms …

This paper presents a comparative analysis of employment and wage behavior of firms in the Czech Republic, Slovakia … of demand grew over the transition, starting from zero in Russia, the Czech Republic and Slovakia and from sizeable … difference in the employment behavior among firms by ownership or legal status. However, Czech, Slovak and Polish private firms …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

rise over time in the Indigenous employment rate and a slight decline in the unemployment rate, but with both of these … in income relativities, with one reason being a growing reliance on jobs in the Community Development Employment Projects …

employment outcomes for Indigenous Australians for the period covering the first two Howard administrations. This paper uses … demographic techniques to make valid comparisons over time, and hence facilitate estimates of future employment levels against … a lowering of employment rates and rising unemployment over the remainder of this decade. Overall, the current fiscal …

since the mid 1990s, and a current upward trend in employment levels. This paper critically evaluates these estimates with …; · do they reflect success of the Indigenous Employment Policy (IEP); · do they result from macroeconomic or microeconomic … trends in Community Development Employment Projects (CDEP) scheme employment and with the fact that purely administrative …