After nearly a decade of relative quiet, the increases in the US minimum wage that began in
1990 have coincided with a renewed interest in its effects. Recent work suggests that a …

The received wisdom tells us that the rigidity and inflexibility of European job markets
relative to that in the United States is the reason why Europe has high unemployment. This …

School-to-work patterns and issues are discussed for seven economies (France, Germany,
Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States). The …

Using harmonized data for the years 1995–2001 from the European Community Household
Panel, the authors analyze gender pay gaps by sector across the wage distribution in eleven …

Free enterprise is off the leash and chasing new opportunities for profit making across the
globe. After a turbulent century of unprecedented social and technological change …

Using microdata for 22 countries over the 1985–94 period, we find that more compressed
male wage structures and lower female net supply are both associated with a lower gender …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages–in the
United States and in other countries–that was spurred by the new minimum wage research …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
develo**. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

In recent years some OECD countries were successful in lowering the unemployment rate
substantially while other countries were not. In this paper we investigate to what extent …