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Das Mindestlohngesetz : Hoffnungen und Befürchtungen

In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 94 (2014) 6, pp. 387-406

Folgen der Mindestlohn auf die Beschäftigung und die Lohnentwicklung haben wird. Der Anpassungsdruck in Ostdeutschland wird …

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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What happens when a previously uncovered labour market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no statistically significant effects on the intensive or...

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Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs: Evidence from the minimum wage

Cadena, Brian C. - In: Journal of Urban Economics 80 (2014) C, pp. 1-12

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...

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Minimum wage in a deflationary economy: The Japanese experience, 1994–2003

Kambayashi, Ryo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 264-276

The statutory minimum wage in Japan has increased continuously for a few decades until the early 2000s even during a period of deflation. This paper examines the impact of the minimum wage on wage and employment outcomes under this unusual circumstance. We find that the minimum-wage increase...

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Neoclassical Economics and Federal Policies

Bechtold, Brigitte H. - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 46 (2014) 4, pp. 496-501

In the United States, commentators and politicians demonstrate a deep-rooted persistent adherence to a neoclassical model of the labor market, where a minimum wage increase is seen as an inevitable cause of unemployment, as it is assumed to occur at a point where the labor market was initially...

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Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labour Market Reform

Coe, David T; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

complementarities imply that partial labour market reform (directed at one institution, while leaving the other institutions in place …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies

Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...

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The Family and Medical Leave Act and the labor productivity of parents

Dunbar, Geoffrey R. - In: Economics Letters 118 (2013) 2, pp. 334-336

The Family and Medical and Leave Act of 1993 in the US expanded workplace provisions for leave-taking by working parents. In this note, I propose a method to estimate the effect of the FMLA on the productivity of working parents using variation in the labor share of income. I find that the FMLA...

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Labour Market Reform in Germany: How to Improve Effectiveness

Wurzel, Eckhard - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006

. Major steps in labour market reform have been implemented over the last three years. These need to be followed up in several … and active labour market policies can be better geared toward activating the unemployed, while institutional reform of the … labour market performance, underlining the need for a broad based reform approach. This Working Paper relates to the 2006 …

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Ordinary Atypical Workers, Participation within the Firm and Innovation: A Theoretical Endeavor and Empirical Outlook

Torka, Nicole; Looise, Jan Kees; Zagelmeyer, Stefan - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 22 (2011) 3, pp. 221-239

This paper offers a theoretical exploration and empirical outlook towards a triptych heretofore not properly investigated: atypical work (e.g., self-employed, agency workers, and workers with a fixed-term contract), participation within the firm, and innovation. How, it must be asked, can and...

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