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-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … increased. We find some weak evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of part-time private sector …
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Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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Worker-level panel data are used to analyse the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes …
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, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …
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analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained … associated with significant employment losses that are concentrated among marginal and low- and semi-skilled full-time workers …
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conventional view, we show that the effect of minimum wages on employment is ambiguous. …
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market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …
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employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …
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outcomes in addition to employment effects. We report strong evidence of adverse employment effects among adult females and …
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as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage … points and an increase of between 2.7-5.9 points in the share of self-employment. …
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