particular, I summarize work on the employment effects of shop-closing regulation in the retail and other related sectors …. Evidence on employment in the retail sector from Germany, the Netherlands and the United States suggests that the regulatory … regime might play an important role; I argue that a nonnegligible comp o nent of the recent Dutch employment miracle could be …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

union which cares for wages and employment, we determine a range of trade union objectives and characterize the aggregate …

possibilities single countries perceive in pursuing employment policies. In a setting where trade is driven by comparative … advantages, and thus wagecompetitiveness plays an important role for employment, it is shown that there is a tendency that a bias … arises in employmentpolicies. Policies expanding private employment tend to be used too little, while policies harming …

In economies with competitive labour markets social policies harm employment and output. In Europe, in particular, non … such as progressive taxation or facilitating corporatism may well induce wage moderation and boost employment and output … better off and thus votes for less 'populist' policies. Hence, employment and economic growth will be higher and inflation …

More progressive income taxes raise employment in models of imperfectly competitive labour markets. However, this … progressive taxes reduce profits. This induces firms to exit the market such that the positive employment effect can vanish in a … opportunities raise the likelihood of positive employment effects due to higher tax progressivity. …

and public employees. After solving for the status quo equilibrium, which can mimic the advantages of employment in the …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …