living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce … employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …

have been characterized with substantial reduction in the general rate of employment and participation rate of the … population, removal of the former branch, regional and professional structures of employment and gradual formation of new ones … information base, the employment and unemployment analysis meets several problems, which impose some developments to be analyzed …

Many studies have been conducted to analyze the effect of stricter Employment Protection Legislation (EPL). However … entailing future stronger labor rigidities, from January 2001 to May 2012. Using the Permanent Employment Survey (EPE), we find … a negative relation between expectations towards a stricter labor market and both employment and average income. News …

This article explores the effects of living wages on low-wage workers and low-income families. First, earlier analyses … confirms earlier findings that business-assistance living wage laws boost wages of the lowest wage workers at the cost of some … that the poverty reductions generated by living wages may stem from income gains for individuals with higher wages or …

market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW …) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick leave on employment and wages. Our findings do not provide much evidence … that employment or wages were significantly affected by the mandates which typically allow employees to earn one hour of …

difference-in-differences models along with the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages to estimate the causal effects of … mandated sick pay on employment and wages. We do not find much evidence that employment or wages were significantly affected by …. Employment decreases of 2 percent lie outside the 92 percent confidence interval and wage decreases of 3 percent lie outside the …