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Employment in Poland 2005

Bukowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga; … - EconWPA - 2005

present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … and UE15 is mostly due to low participation/employment of older workers in Poland, although individuals aged 15-24 also …

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DETERMINANTS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF HOUSEHOLD DEMAND FOR SMALLHOLDER CREDIT IN MALAWI

Bokosi, Fanwell Kenala - EconWPA - 2004

the relationship between participation in credit markets and socio-economic characteristics. Secondly, an Ordinary Least … size is positively and significantly related to the household’s probability of participation. Larger family size exerts …

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

There is very little evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on prices using monthly Brazilian household and price data from 1982 to 2000 aggregated at...

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A Menu Of Minimum Wage Variables For Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence From Brazil

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but also the minimum wage has been...

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Of Regulatory Law

Carloff, Andy - EconWPA - 2005

Some thoughtful questions and linear answers to the economic, social, and political consequencs that comes with restrictive regulating laws. 'Regulatory law is where Socialism meets Liberalism; or what might be called the highest form of Liberalism, the lowest form of Socialism.'

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but also the minimum wage has been used as anti-inflation policy in addition to its social role. This paper estimates...

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Some Deadweight Losses from the Minimum Wage: The Cases of Full and Partial Compliance

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2001

This paper highlights the social costs from non-price rationing of the labour force due to the minimum wage. By short-circuiting the ability of low reservation-wage workers to underbid high-reservation wage workers, the minimum wage interferes with the market's basic function of grouping the...

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The Effects Of The Minimum Wage On Wages And Employment In Brazil - A Menu Of Minimum Wage Variables

Lemos, Sara - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage strongly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent - unlike the typically small increases focused upon in most of the existing literature - but also the minimum wage...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408341

MINIMUM WAGE AND INCOME DISTRIBUTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Rapanos, Vassilis T. - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of a change in the minimum wage on income distribution and employment in a developing economy. The basic framework of our analysis is the original Harris- Todaro model, in which the only factor that is intersectorally mobile is labor. We...

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Minimum Wages for Ronald McDonald Monopsonies: A Theory of Monopsonistic Competition

Bhaskar, V.; To, Ted - EconWPA - 1996

Recent empirical work on the effects of minimum wages has called into question the conventional wisdom that minimum wages invariably reduce employment. We develop a model of \emph{monopsonistic competition} with \emph{free entry} to analyze the effects of minimum wages, and our predictions fit...

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