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

. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …

provision of labour market relevant information by former coworkers affects the employment probabilities and, if hired, the … wages of male workers who have previously become unemployed as the result of an establishment closure. To identify the … results suggest a strong positive effect of a higher employment rate in a worker’s network of former coworkers on his re-employment …

development of wages and employment across skill groups, there is considerable disagreement to explain these trends, in particular …

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 …

union which cares for wages and employment, we determine a range of trade union objectives and characterize the aggregate …A trade union whose purpose is to raise wages above the competitive level may foster economic growth if it succeeds in …

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 …-competitive labour markets with trade unions, efficiency wages and/or costly search and mismatch seem more realistic. Social policies … such as progressive taxation or facilitating corporatism may well induce wage moderation and boost employment and output …

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. …