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The Employment Effects of the October 2003 Increase in the National Minimum Wage
Dickens, Richard; Draca, Mirko - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005
There is a growing body of research that measures employment effects of the minimum wage by using longitudinal data on individuals to compare job loss of workers affected by a minimum wage increase with those who are not directly affected. This sort of study requires good quality wage data in...
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Minimum Wages and Employment
Keil, Manfred; Robertson, Donald; Symons, James - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2001
This paper investigates the effect of minimum wages on employment using a panel of US state-based data. We estimate a … significant effects of minimum wages on youth employment. Unlike many other studies we find also significant effects on aggregate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016727
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The Careers of Immigrants
Matos, Ana Damas de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...
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Labor Search and Matching in Macroeconomics
Yashiv, Eran - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
? How are wages determined? What role do labor market dynamics play in explaining business cycles and growth? The survey …
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Share Capitalism and Worker Wellbeing
Bryson, Alex; Clark, Andrew E.; Freeman, Richard B.; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
levels, which suggests these pay methods provide utility to workers in addition to that through higher wages. These findings …
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The Unemployment Volatility Puzzle: Is Wage Stickiness the Answer?
Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
by wages in new matches. I summarize microeconometric evidence on wages in new matches and show that the key model … cyclical volatility of wages. I discuss some extensions of the model that can increase cyclical unemployment volatility through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151092
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Has Performance Pay Increased Wage Inequality in Britain?
Bryan, Mark; Bryson, Alex - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Using data from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) we show performance pay (PP) increased earnings dispersion among men and women, and to a lesser extent among full-time working women, in the decade of economic growth which ended with the recession of 2008. PP was also associated with...
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Trade Union Membership and Influence 1999-2009
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we...
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Do Higher Wages Come at a Price?
Barth, Erling; Bryson, Alex; Dale-Olsen, Harald - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010
higher wages are associated with higher job satisfaction and higher job anxiety. However, we observe a positive association … between higher wages and non-pecuniary job satisfaction, which disappears with the inclusion of our effort measures. Thus high … effort levels provide high levels of non-pecuniary job satisfaction and higher wages, in contrast to what compensating wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008694943
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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as a function of the demographic conditions into which they were born. We have three main findings. First, larger birth cohorts substantially affect careers. A player born into a...
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