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Scaling up aid or scaling down : the global economic crisis and Rwanda's MDGs
Löfgren, Hans; Nielsen, Hannah; Ezemenari, Kenechukwu Maria - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003845778
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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2003
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277067
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Labor market regulations : what do we know about their impacts in developing countries?
Betcherman, Gordon - 2014
Labor market regulation is a high-profile, and often contentious, area of public policy. Although these regulations have been studied most extensively in developed countries, there is a growing body of literature on their effects in developing countries. This paper reviews that literature and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260119
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Mind the gap: Net incomes of minimum wage workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - 2012
poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282582
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Do minimum wages in Latin America and the Caribbean matter? : evidence from 19 countries
Kristensen, Nicolai; Cunningham, Wendy V. - 2006
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Effectiveness of interventions aimed at improving women’s employability and quality of work : a critical review
Todd, Petra - 2012
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Pending issues in protection, productivity growth and poverty reduction
Arias, Omar; Blom, Andreas; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003442744
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Gender equality, poverty and economic growth
Morrison, Andrew R. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003619670
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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289898
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Can policy interact with culture? Minimum wage and the quality of labor relations
Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
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