the market-clearing level must reduce employment. Empirical findings suggest, however, that this might not always be the … competitive labour market with friction. -- minimum wage and employment ; minimum wage paradox ; friction and search in the labour …

from 1992 to 2003, the paper examines, with the use of elementary statistical tools, whether or not earnings fluctuations … observed differentials might be related to differences in the respective experience/earnings profiles of those groups. Findings … suggests that earnings fluctuations did differ in size across those groups, and that, moreover, they appear to have done so in …