on the working week, employment and productivity. A baseline model economy is calibrated to reproduce the cross … higher degree of flexibility in weekly hours. The 2012 reform is found to preserve employment and generate a 1.72% increase … in productivity. In the work-sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …

employment in food retailing. Using data on the universe of German shops, we find that relaxing restrictions on business hours … increased employment by 0.4 workers per shop corresponding to an aggregate employment effect of 3 to 4 per cent. The effect was … driven by an increase in parttime employment while full-time employment was not affected. The statistical significance of …

and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …

This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage … or large profit margin increase employment, while those with low wages or small profit margin downsize. The increase in … the monopsony rent of firms.Our results provide evidence for the theoretical predictions of the positive minimum wage-employment …

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …