This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

employment security, and the development and maintenance of an adequate skill basis. In identifying the importance of the … considered. The paper assesses whether the lack of regulation in the UK encourages volatilty of employment and, thereby, lower … employment stability, higher levels of training ans, as a result, more advantages for firms competing in areas of high quality …

people and recent trends therein, along with the institutions that regulate youth education, training and employment. The …

)). Next, it treats studies analyzing differences in service-industry employment, and offers a discussion of studies focussing …

This paper examines whether Canadian firms of different sizes (in terms of employment) grow at different rates year …-on-year. The data are from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Employment Analysis Program and cover the 1999-to-2008 period. The … of employees in both previous and current years.The analysis shows that employment growth rates across the Canadian …

This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an … expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment … change into gross employment creation and destruction, which makes it possible to measure the size of total annual employment …

This article in the Economic Insights series decomposes business-sector annual net employment growth into gross … employment creation and gross employment destruction at the firm level. It is based on research carried out by Statistics Canada … on the topic of business dynamics.The net employment created or destroyed in the business sector in a given year provides …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

explanation for several seemingly unrelated facts about employment growth in macro and micro data. In particular, they generate … of employment growth to TFP shocks estimated from Census data induce significant skewness, movements in volatility and …

)). Next, it treats studies analyzing differences in service-industry employment, and offers a discussion of studies focussing …