the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We review the motivations for minimum wages and the changes and analyse … how they have affected workers outcomes. We find that the minimum wage now strongly determines the wages of teenage … to adverse employment effects, we expect there are downside risks for youth and low skilled workers' employment. As …

temporary severing of employment relationships followed by a phase of more standard labour market search and matching, we use … stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …

This paper develops a dynamic model of the labor market in which the degree of substitution between employment and … work, and defines the trade-off between employment and hours of work. Concave production technology induces firms to …

; employment ; wage setting ; labour force participation ; labour market dynamics ; unemployment persistence ; imperfect …

in Egypt. The paper focuses on unprotected employment and the extent to which it changed by educational level right after … the January Uprising of 2011. We find that over time and particularly after the revolution, informal employment has …

employment rates of young individuals below the age of 25—as compared to the older workers—in countries with youth minimum wages … wages, increases in the level of (youth) minimum wages exert a substantial negative impact on the employment rate for young …This paper performs a cross-country level analysis on the impact of the level of specific youth minimum wages on the …

bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the …

in outcomes for establishments in treated and untreated states. We find that paid parental leave laws reduce employment … in an industry that were women, and find that there is no systematic evidence that firms reduce employment more in …

This paper considers the role mergers and acquisitions have on employment. First, it considers the importance of … activity in a similar manner, employment authorities may be able to anticipate the regions in which takeovers are more likely …