Using household level data for France from 1990 to 2000, we estimate a relationship between wages and unemployment … particularly large between 1996 and 2000 and undoubtedly contributed strongly to the exceptional employment performance during that …

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the … negative impact on employment, with an estimated elasticity of -0.1. Furthermore, we find a heterogeneous effect of the minimum … wage on employment which depends on the firm's wage level. Specifically, the minimum wage has a greater negative impact on …

This paper investigates the sensitivity of sectoral employment and wages in the United States to changes in foreign … and wage levels. This paper estimates the impact of changes in both import and export prices on employment and wages in … most sectors, changes in trade prices do not have significant effects on employment and wages, although they generally have …

This paper examines the impact of trade on employment, wages, and other outcomes across countries and explores the … firm-level dataset to examine the impact of import competition on employment, wages, and firm performance, as well as the … higher average wages; thus any relatively slower employment growth in this group of firms could lead to lower inequality …

environment around the time of the Arab Spring and the extent to which these constraints affected their employment performance … to electricity are found to explain a significant part of the lack of employment growth in MENA firms compared to their …

The employment impact of environmental policies is an important question for policy makers. We examine the effect of … reallocation of employment. Moreover, tightening EPS during economic contractions appears to have a positive effect on employment …, other things equal. Quantifications exercises show modest positive net changes in employment for market-based policies, and …

We evaluate the direct employment effect of the public investment in key infrastructure-electricity, roads, schools and … employment effect. Overall, we estimate that one percent of global GDP in public investment can create more than seven million … jobs worldwide through its direct employment effects alone …

sharply), and finds that almost two thirds of the employment losses in Spain resulted from the failure of real wages to adjust … was not just cyclical (the result of a lack of aggregate demand); the degree of adjustment of real wages and the impact … this had on labor productivity also played a role. In many countries, post-2007 employment losses were modest, as real …

Euro-area real wages have decelerated sharply in the last 20 years, but this has not yet translated into visibly lower … output and employment …