productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …

productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …

demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …

demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …

prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …

the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings … Costa Rica. This country’s large uncovered sector and complex minimum wage policy, which has for decades set numerous wages … minimum wages. We find that legal minimum wages have a significant positive effect on the wages of workers in the covered …

by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …