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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis
Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage using a difference-in-differences design with continuous treatment in two-digit industries of 71 (Arts, Entertainment and Recreation) and 72...
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Gesetzliche Mindestlöhne : mit der Einführung kommen die Tücken der Umsetzung
Brenke, Karl; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 93 (2013) 11, pp. 751-757
Ein allgemeiner, gesetzlicher Mindestlohn ist nach den Bundestagswahlen 2013 ein ganz wichtiges politisches Thema in … Deutschland. So macht die SPD vor den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit den Unionsparteien die Einführung einer branchenübergreifenden …, dass sich die SPD mit ihren Forderungen durchsetzt und Mindestlöhne in Deutschland demnächst per Gesetz eingeführt werden. …
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Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of wage theft -- wage payments below the statutory minimum wage -- falls disproportionately on various demographic groups following minimum wage increases. For most racial and ethnic groups at most ages we find...
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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups
Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use wage data from the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS MORG) to study the effect of state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks...
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role...
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What's Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects
Jha, Priyaranjan; Neumark, David; Rodríguez López, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010) argue that state-level minimum wage variation correlated with economic shocks generates spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs sharing a state border, they find no relationship...
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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
Betriebsebene erfolgt. Dabei kommt ein einzigartiger Linked Employer-Employee Datensatz zum Einsatz. Da der Mindestlohn zunächst nur …-von-Differenzen-Ansatz genutzt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sowohl Einstellungen als auch Trennungen in Ostdeutschland durch den Mindestlohn …
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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a “lost generation” may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many...
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Evaluating the minimum-wage exemption of the long-term unemployed in Germany
Umkehrer, Matthias; Vom Berge, Philipp - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 73 (2020) 5, pp. 1095-1118
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The German statutory minimum wage and its effects on regional employment and unemployment
Bonin, Holger; Isphording, Ingo Eduard; Krause-Pilatus, … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 2/3, pp. 295-319
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