This paper investigates the local labor supply effects of changes to the minimum wage by examining the response of low-skilled immigrants' location decisions. Canonical models emphasize the importance of labor mobility when evaluating the employment effects of the minimum wage; yet few studies address this outcome directly. Low-skilled immigrant populations shift toward labor markets with stagn...

Incidence of a “Social VAT” Reform: A French Scenario This paper studies the fiscal incidence of a fiscal reform consisting of a reduction in employers' social insurance contributions financed by a tax based on the value added. In a closed economy with two sectors calibrated thanks to the French National Accounts, a “social VAT” leads to a rise in labor incomes which is usually higher than the ...

The relationship between labour demand and job-to-job movement is investigated, both theoretically and empirically, at the macro level. It concentrates on the role of the employment regime (hiring, do-nothing or ® ring) and the hiring and ® ring costs. The exact upper bounds of the marginal hiring costs of an employed worker are derived, for which job mobility between two ® rms yields a positiv...

The dynamic of Israeli women’s labour market experiences is analysed, with the focus on three main determinants of their attachment to the labour market: (i) family events, particularly the effect and timing of childbirth on women’s market involvement, (ii) human capital, and (iii) structural determinants, including occupation, and sector of employment. Utilizing data from the 2001 mobility stu...

We examine the impact of recent trade reforms in Morocco. Although employment in the average private sector manufacturing firm was unaffected, there were significant employment losses in exporting firms and in the most highly affected firms. Parastatals actually increased employment, by hiring low-paid temporary workers. Many firms did not adjust either wages or employment. We examine two possi...

Intragenerational mobility has been a central concern in sociology, especially in the latter half of the 20 century. Most of this analysis has proceeded using measures of social position that are functions of an individual’s occupation. This approach has been based on two primary justifications. First, occupational mobility is a key attribute of labor market structure, and the labor market, alo...

The diffusion of knowledge throughout the learning economy is of crucial relevance to economic prosperity and growth. But, as this paper attempts to show, the promotion of flexible labour market policy has to be treated with some caution. Even though it appears that one major way of diffusing knowledge throughout the economy is to promote labour mobility between firms, empirical evidence concer...

Do Poor Children Become Poor Adults? Lessons from a Cross Country Comparison of Generational Earnings Mobility A cross country comparison of generational earnings mobility is offered, and the reasons for the degree to which the long run labour market success of children is related to that of their parents is examined. The rich countries differ significantly in the extent to which parental econo...