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Evasion costs and the theory Of conscription

Warner, John; Negrusa, Sebastian - In: Defence and Peace Economics 16 (2005) 2, pp. 83-100

Many countries of Europe are moving from conscripted to volunteer military forces. This paper examines the current status of those conversions and interprets them in light of an economic model of the military manpower procurement system choice developed in Warner and Asch (1996). The theoretical...

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The Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment

Autor, David; Manning, Alan; Smith, Christopher L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy...

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Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1998

I examine the impact of the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards on weekly hours worked between 1938 and … responded to the overtime provisions of the Act by adjusting straight-time wages, but that this adjustment did not completely … offset the overtime provisions. Employers in the south were less able to adjust straight-time wages because the minimum wage …

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The Impact of Employee Stock Options on the Evolution of Compensation in the 1990s

Mehran, Hamid; Tracy, Joseph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

Between 1995 and 1998, actual growth in nominal compensation per hour (CPH) accelerated from approximately 2 percent to 5 percent. Yet as labor markets continued to tighten in 1999, the growth in CPH paradoxically slowed. In this article, we attempt to solve this aggregate wage puzzle by...

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Do Teacher Absences Impact Student Achievement? Longitudinal Evidence from One Urban School District

Murnane, Richard J.; Miller, Raegen T.; Willett, John B. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

Rates of employee absences and the effects of absences on productivity are topics of conversation in many organizations in many countries. One reason is that high rates of employee absence may signal weak management and poor labor-management relations. A second reason is that reducing rates of...

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Incentive Strength and Teacher Productivity: Evidence from a Group-Based Teacher Incentive Pay System

Imberman, Scott A.; Lovenheim, Michael F. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Using data from a group incentive program that provides cash bonuses to teachers whose students perform well on standardized tests, we estimate the impact of incentive strength on student achievement. These awards are based on the performances of students within a grade, school and subject,...

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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?

Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...

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The Short-Term Effects of Structural Reforms: An Empirical Analysis

Bouis, Romain; Causa, Orsetta; Demmou, Lilas; Duval, Romain - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012

Drawing on new empirical analysis of 30 years of structural reforms across the OECD, this paper sheds light on the impact of reforms over time, identifies the horizon over which their full effects materialise, and investigates whether such effects vary with prevailing economic conditions and...

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More on Recent Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wages in the United States

Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (2010) and Allegretto et al. (2011) argue that past U.S. research is flawed because it...

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The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits During and After the Great Recession

Neumark, David; Grijalva, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

State and federal policymakers grappling with the aftermath of the Great Recession have sought ways to spur job creation, in many cases adopting hiring credits to encourage employers to create new jobs. However, there is virtually no evidence on the effects of these kinds of counter-recessionary...

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