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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

increases in Honduras reduce extreme poverty, with an elasticity of -0.18, and all poverty, with an elasticity of -0.10 (using …

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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over …

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The Unintended Consequences of Education Policies on South African Participation and Unemployment

Burger, Rulof; van der Berg, Servaas; von Fintel, Dieter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

sudden increase in labour force participation and unemployment during this period. However, since these individuals would …

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Bridging the Gap in Pension Participation: How Much Can Universal Tax-Deferred Pension Coverage Hope to Achieve?

Karamcheva, Nadia S; Sanzenbacher, Geoffrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

-plan availability to estimate the determinants of participation in a standard selection on unobservables model. We find that currently …

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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment: A Cross-Country Analysis

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …

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The Returns to Seniority in France (and Why Are They Lower than in the United States?)

Beffy, Magali; Buchinsky, Moshe; Fougère, Denis; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We estimate a model of the joint participation and mobility along with the individuals’ wage formation in France. Our …

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From Giving Birth to Paid Labor: The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers

Bergemann, Annette; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...

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Charity Auctions: A Field Experimental Investigation

Carpenter, Jeffrey; Holmes, Jessica; Matthews, Peter Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

by the first price auction. Our design also allows us to identify differential participation as the source of the … endogenous participation decision predicts the revenue ordering that we see in the field. …

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Do a Few Months of Compulsory Schooling Matter? The Education and Labour Market Impact of School Leaving Rules

Del Bono, Emilia; Galindo-Rueda, Fernando - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

levels and see their participation and employment probability as adults enhanced. We show that the estimated genuine impact … of attaining an academic qualification on participation and employment is always statistically significant, in particular …

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Active Labor Market Policy Effects for Women in Europe: A Survey

Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

relate the results to the relevant level of female labor force participation. …

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