unemployment and active labor market programs (ALMPs), utilizing a reform that decreased dismissal costs for small firms only …We investigate the effect of employment protection legislation (EPL) on the propensity to hire workers from … unemployment and some ALMPs. Our results suggest that there was less screening of new hires after the reform, and that …

How important is imperfect competition in the product market for employment dynamics? To investigate this, we formulate … a theoretical model of employment adjustment with imperfect competition in the product market, search frictions, and … convex adjustment costs. From this model, we derive a structural equation for employment that we estimate on firm-level data …

This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South … Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from …/17 and difference-in-difference models, our results show that employment decreased by approximately 14 percentage points …