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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762316
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761679
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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884301
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Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank. We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We propose a cross-validation based procedure for model...
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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct...
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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...
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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 the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of the economy: medium and large-scale firms v. small firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762034
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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations
Portugal, Pedro; Cardoso, Ana Rute - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment effects of mandatory minimum wages, as the minimum wage increased sharply for a very specific group of workers. Relying on a matched employer employee panel data set, we model...
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Job Protection, Minimum Wage and Unemployment
Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage profiles...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762387
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Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
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