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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000–2007...
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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 … of workers (Kaitz index). They assume that the introduction of a minimum wage in Germany can have a number of effects. It …
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Compliance with minimum wage laws in developing countries : institutional, individual, firm, and local labor market characteristics are critical for understanding non-compliance wi...
Bhorat, Haroon - 2014
The level of compliance with minimum wage laws often depends on factors specific to each labor market. In most developing countries, a substantial share of workers still earns less than the legal minimum. Enforcement has not kept up with growth in regulations to protect workers from low wages...
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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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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …
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The employment effect of industry-specific, collectively-bargained minimum wages
Frings, Hanna - 2012
, obwohl der Mindestlohn in (Ost-)Deutschland bindend ist. Dieses Ergebnis kann durch Substitutionseffekte, Umgehungsstrategien …This paper estimates the employment effects of industry-specific, collectively-bargained minimum wages in Germany for … significantly negative employment effect, even though the minimum wage is binding in (East) Germany. This result can be explained by …
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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 … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …
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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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The employment effects of the minimum wage : a selection ratio approach to measuring treatment effects
Slichter, David - In: Journal of applied econometrics 38 (2023) 3, pp. 334-357
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : the negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - In: Journal of public economics 206 (2022), pp. 1-32
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