Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … particularly large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

small firms, but employment may actually increase in large firms.Minimum wages in Indonesia were tripled in nominal terms … earnings, wage employment, and investment with respect to the minimum wage.A wide dispersion in the ratio of minimum wages to … imply that doubling the minimum wage led to a 10 percent increase in average wages, a 2 percent decrease in wage employment …