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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990915
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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884275
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252285
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Sectoral Explanations of Employment in Europe: The Role of Services
Antonello D’Agostino; Serafini, Roberta; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
service sector, four sub-sectors and twelve service sector branches. Recently, both Europe and the US have experienced an … gap in the share of service jobs in Europe relative to the US persists. Understanding the main factors behind this gap is … key to achieving higher employment levels in Europe. This paper focuses on the role of barriers in the EU-15 which may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763842
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Trends in Economic Research: An International Perspective
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Guimaraes, Paulo; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
of research in economics. Our findings indicate that Europe is catching up with the US but, in terms of influential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008568273
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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151029
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Wage Differentials across Sectors in Europe: An East-West Comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, Daphné - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study compares the structure and determinants of inter-industry wage differentials in Eastern and Western European countries (namely Belgium, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal and Spain compared with Latvia, Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761811
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Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
across Europe. The analysis covers 18 countries over the period 2007-2009. Empirical results confirm the intuition of many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010961735