This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined … evidence that the large public sector in Germany in effect functions as an employer of last resort, absorbing some otherwise …

, Germany, and the United Kingdom, we document striking similarities in spatial differences in unemployment, vacancies, job …

minimum wages depress employment, is not supported by the empirical findings in some labour markets. In this paper we present … employment, but which also allows for the possibility of a neutral or a positive effect. The model structure is based on labour … economic wisdom but in line with several recent studies, do not have a negative impact on employment. If anything, the …

Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the …-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …'s employment record cannot be drawn from aggregate data …

greater flexibility in wages, these two countries also exhibit more stable employment behavior over the business cycle. In …

literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …