find significant effects from minimum wages on employment and monthly wages. However, we find a considerable negative …

Local labour market concentration may influence firms' employment responses to minimum wages. We evaluate this … wages. We find that, consistently with monopsony views, the negative effects of minimum wages on employment are reduced when … labour market concentration is higher. We also find positive employment effects of minimum wages, but only in some …

Unions and collective bargaining play a central role in shaping wages and influencing firms' employment decisions and … employment. Unions typically increase wages and other working conditions for their members and often all employees working in … lower wage inequality. This result is more or less undisputed in the literature. The union effect on employment is …

contract of employment, receiving hourly wages lower than the national hourly minimum wages, and experiencing insults and … and verbal abuse reveals itself when workers do not have a contract of employment and vice versa. Immigrant workers … promote written employment contracts and ensure a mechanism for workers to register violations of fair practices. …

the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … legislation did not seem to have had any impact on the extensive margin in terms of employment opportunities or the probability of …

by comparing affiliated and non-affiliated firms in terms of sales, employment, productivity, and wages. Using matched …