probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

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. …

, 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. …

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … at least a bachelor's degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible … jobseekers were not more likely to find employment that lasted at least twelve consecutive months than ineligible jobseekers. …

establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …

(UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has … established that employment protection reduces labor and job turnover but the jury is still out regarding the impact on overall …