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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

, using a Poisson regression model applied to proportions. Worker behavior is as well modeled. Employment trends for teenagers … empirical literature when analysing the overall impact of the minimum wage on youth employment without looking at its sources. …

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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002

Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …

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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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Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

Abowd, John M; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-à-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition rates. We find that … movements in both French and American real minimum wages are associated with mild employment effects in general, and very strong …

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Dual Labour Markets, Urban Unemployment and Multicentric Cities

Smith, Tony E; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper a two-sector model of urban unemployment is developed which focuses on the formation of a secondary sector under conditions in which a demand shock in the primary sector leads to a sharp increase in unemployment. The optimal location in the secondary sector is shown to be at the...

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Working 40 Hours or Not Working 39: Lessons from the 1981 Mandatory Reduction of Weekly Working Hours

Crépon, Bruno; Kramarz, Francis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We use longitudinal individual wage, hours, and employment data to investigate the effect of the 1981 mandatory …

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Searching for the Virtues of the European Model

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The distributional effects of the minimum wage are analysed in a model where skilled and unskilled labour enter the production function. It is argued that distributional goals are best achieved by letting the labour market clear and achieving redistribution through taxes and transfers.

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Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. For that purpose, we estimate a price rigidity model by exploiting a unique dataset of individual price quotes used to calculate the Consumer Price Index in France. We find a positive and significant impact of the minimum wage on...

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Inequality of Earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...

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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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