areas. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of employment evolutions for rural areas in Western Europe during the … overall employment growth across rural areas in all four countries. A sizable fraction of rural areas lost employment. However …, employment in a significant number of rural areas grew during this period. The 90-10 percentile difference in decadal total …

hazard in the context of employment relationships. …

effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an … initial drop with a net positive effect five years after adoption. Crucially, the employment effect is heterogeneous across … technologies has an overall negative effect on aggregate employment. …

-linear effects on employment of raising the minimum wage, in particular that marginal disemployment effects become larger when the …-linear disemployment effects are much more apparent for countries with strict Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) and/or with a high …

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 …

index, and fuel prices. Our results indicate that greater uncertainty has a negative impact on growth of employment and the …