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Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...
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Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Del Carpio, Ximena; Messina, Julián; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and...
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Mind the Gap: Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Marx, Ive; Marchal, Sarah; Nolan, Brian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It … or exceed the EU's at-risk-of poverty threshold, set at 60 per cent of median equivalent household income in each country … what minimum wage policies alone can achieve in the fight against in-work poverty. The route of raising minimum wages to …
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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the … poverty. We take advantage of a complex minimum wage system in a poor country that has been exposed to the forces of … globalization to test whether minimum wages are an effective poverty reduction tool in this environment. We find that minimum wage …
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The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement: Evidence from the Earned Income Tax Credit
Dahl, Gordon B.; Lochner, Lance John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Past estimates of the effect of family income on child development have often been plagued by endogeneity and measurement error. In this paper, we use an instrumental variables strategy to estimate the causal effect of income on children's math and reading achievement. Our identification derives...
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Sometimes, Winners Lose: Economic Disparity and Indigenization in Kazakhstan
Gang, Ira N.; Schmillen, Achim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
formerly disadvantaged populations. Using one example of such policies – "Kazakhisation" in Kazakhstan – we investigate their …
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Economic and Spatial Determinants of Interregional Migration in Kazakhstan
Aldashev, Alisher; Dietz, Barbara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In this paper we analyze economic and spatial determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly … should facilitate regional income convergence in Kazakhstan and improve living standards in depressed regions. …
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Mindestlohnevaluation jetzt und nicht erst 2020
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Spermann, Alexander; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
– wie zum Beispiel die Einführung einer Evaluationsklausel – bleibt der Mindestlohn ein arbeitsmarktpolitisches … lang und freiwillige Praktika für Studierende länger als sechs Wochen vom Mindestlohn auszunehmen. Sie plädieren für die …
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Kein Mindestlohn ohne unabhängige wissenschaftliche Evaluation
Arni, Patrick; Eichhorst, Werner; Pestel, Nico; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Die deutsche Bundesregierung plant die Einführung eines flächendeckenden Mindestlohns. Dieser Beitrag fasst die vorliegenden nationalen und internationalen Erfahrungen mit Mindestlöhnen zusammen. Er analysiert dabei die Konsequenzen für Beschäftigung und Einkommensverteilung und legt eine...
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Wie weiter am deutschen Arbeitsmarkt?
Eichhorst, Werner - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt hat sich in den letzten Jahren stark verändert. Es sind viele zusätzliche Arbeitsplätze entstanden. Das bedeutet aber nicht, dass die Politik in der neuen Legislaturperiode nichts mehr zu tun hätte. Zwei wesentliche Handlungsfelder stehen auf der Agenda: die...
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