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Measuring Labour Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …
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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
South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no …
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Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data
Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both the firm- and the industry-levels in France, we examine the impact of typical European wage-setting institutions on the form and the degree of wage rigidity. We highlight different stylized facts concerning wage stickiness. First, in...
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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico
Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all the growth in inequality in the bottom end, is due to...
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Price Controls and Consumer Surplus
Bulow, Jeremy I.; Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The condition for when a price control increases consumer welfare in perfect competition is tighter than often realised. When demand is linear, a small restriction on price only increases consumer surplus if the elasticity of demand exceeds the elasticity of supply; with log-linear or...
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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey
Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
imports, and an ambiguous literature on immigration which implies a small overall impact on the wages of the average native …
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The Origins and Early Impact of the Minimum Wage in Agriculture
Gowers, Robin; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper examines the effects on wages and employment of the minimum wage in agriculture in the United Kingdom during …
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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability
Draca, Mirko; Machin, Steve; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially … employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a … significant impact on wages, but only a limited impact on jobs, so it is natural to imagine there must be a stronger impact on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124436
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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Job Accessions and Separations from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portugal, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Changes in legislation in mid-80s Portugal provide remarkable conditions for economic analysis, as the minimum wage increased very sharply for a very specific group of workers. Relying on a matched employer-employee panel dataset, we model gross job flows - accessions and separations - in...
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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage
Epstein, Gil S; Nitzan, Shmuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497998