This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

approach we decompose the dynamics of employment and labour force into transitory and permanent components. We estimated a …

Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firing in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …

The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence …’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically, costs of firing and hiring reduce employment and stimulate unemployment when …

product demand can affect employment under these conditions. The analysis suggests that the longer-term effectiveness of …