since the mid-1990s, French unemployment and employment rates show stability or improvement as well as strong convergence to … worsening employment opportunities for vulnerable workers. Making work pay for the bottom third of the workforce should be a top …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … negative impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum … wage on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

, without reducing relative employment in low‐wage regions within the first two years. …

horizon (3 years). The employment effects of this policy are estimated using a synthetic control approach on Labour Force … past the 15th percentile, but not all remained employed. Employment losses were found mostly among younger workers, at … magnitudes similar to previous elasticities. Newer to the literature, regional employment losses were found mostly outside of …