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Minimum Wages and Employment
Neumark, David; Wascher, William L. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages – in theUnited States and other countries – that was spurred by the new minimum wage researchbeginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existingestimates and, accordingly, a...
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New Estimates of the Effects of Minimum Wages in the U.S. Retail Trade Sector
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county-specific trends in sectoral outcomes...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants´ Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859657
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Alternative Labor Market Policies to Increase Economic Self-Sufficiency : Mandating Higher Wages, Subsidizing Employment, and Raising Productivity
Neumark, David - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
The principal means by which individuals and families achieve economic self-sufficiency is through labor market … and families to achieve an adequate standard of living from participating in the labor market - a goal that has become …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861120
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Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
Hirsch, Barry T.; Kaufman, Bruce E.; Zelenska, Tetyana - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performancestandards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the …
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The Elasticity of Labor Demand and the Minimum Wage
Danziger, Leif - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
increased until the labor demand is unitary elastic... …
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