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Product Market Evidence on the Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage

French, Eric; Aaronson, Dan - Econometric Society - 2004

We calibrate a model of labor demand to infer the employment response to a change in the minimum wage in the food away from home industry. Assuming a perfectly competitive labor market, the model predicts a 2.5 to 3.5 percent fall in employment in response to a 10 percent minimum wage change. We...

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Informal employment in Bolivia: A lost proposition?

Tannuri-Pianto, Maria; Pianto, Donald - Econometric Society - 2004

We study participation and relative earnings in the formal, informal, and self-employed sectors in Bolivia. We estimate … quantile earnings equations corrected for self-selectivity to address potential biases in the estimates of relative earnings … formal sector where education and experience explain much of a worker's earnings, and worst fit for the self-employed sector …

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Unequal opportunities and human capital formation

St-Pierre, Marc; Mejia, Daniel - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where agents face different costs of access to the educational system. The paper explores the relation between inequality of opportunities (in the form of differential costs of access to the educational process) and...

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Signaling and the Education Premium

Kurtzon, Gregory - Econometric Society - 2004

A large portion of the rise in the education premium can be explained by a signaling theory of education which predicts that in the future, increases in the education level of the workforce will actually cause the education premium to rise, simply because different workers are being labeled as...

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Labor Market Regimes and Mobility through a Markov Chain in Chile

Paredes, Ricardo; Lima, Victor - Econometric Society - 2004

In this paper we analyze the dynamics of labor markets in Chile. Our goal is to understand how flexibility in the labor market has changed over time, and in particular, to relate this change with the legislation framework. We analyze mobility in four different periods, each of them associated...

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Market Institutions, Labor Market Dynamics, Growth and Productivity: Argentina

Sanchez, Gabriel; Butler, Ines - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper seeks to shed light on how manufacturing job flows and productivity in Argentina were affected during the 1990s by economic reforms in general and particularly by: a) financial shocks, b) labor reforms that change non-wage labor costs, c) trade reforms that alter tariff dispersion, d)...

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Employment Protection and Gross Job Flows1

Pages, Alejandro Micco - Carmen - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper examines the empirical relation between employment protection regulation and gross job flows in a sample of developed and developing countries. By implementing a difference in difference test we avoid the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with...

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Trade Liberalization, the Exchange Rate and Job and Worker Flows in Brazil

Ribeiro, Eduardo Pontual; Corseuil, Carlos H. - Econometric Society - 2004

Over the 1990â€™s Brazil experienced a massive trade liberalization and wide variation in the real exchange rate. At the same time, employment growth was small and in manufacturing there was a significant reduction in total manufacturing. The main goal of this article is to idntify the...

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Cannabis, Cocaine and Jobs

Ours, Jan C. van - Econometric Society - 2004

This paper uses a dataset collected among inhabitants of Amsterdam, to study the employment effects of the use of cannabis and cocaine. For females no negative effects of drug use on the employment rate are found. For males there is a negative relationship between past cannabis and cocaine use...

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On-the-Job Search and Business Cycle Dynamics

Lubik, Thomas A.; Krause, Michael U. - Econometric Society - 2004

Recent research shows that observed labor market flows can be explained in search and matching models only by assuming either implausibly large productivity shocks (Hall 2003) or an excessively high degree of real wage rigidity even for new hires (Shimer 2003). If this is not the case, the...

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