We investigate the unemployment pathway to retirement in Germany and study the causal effects of two early retirement …

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

We estimate the spatially differential effects of a nationally uniform minimum wage that was introduced in Germany in … 2015. To this end, we use a micro data set covering the universe of employed and unemployed individuals in Germany from …, without reducing relative employment in low‐wage regions within the first two years. …

analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment … opportunity cost of employment. …

The path breaking work of Card and Krueger (1993), showing higher minimum wage can increase employment turned the age … and we show that higher minimum wage can raise aggregate employment. Expansion in the non-traded sector following a wage …

, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …

, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …

negative effects on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. However, we provide suggestive evidence that young workers … employment elasticity with respect to the minimum wage of -0.021, and an own-wage elasticity of -0.033, suggesting that wage … gains dominated employment losses. …