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The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector

Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

roofers to remain employed in the sector in eastern Germany deteriorated along the entire wage distribution. Such employment …

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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

well as the underlying labour market flows, at the establishment level. The fact that minimum wages in Germany are sector … accessions and separations rise in East Germany as a result of the minimum wage introduction. The evidence on detailed worker …-to-job transitions in East Germany, which can be explained by a more compressed wage distribution making on-the-job search less …

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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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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants’ Employment and Earnings

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...

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Minimum Wages and Employment

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other countries - that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a...

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Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage

Pinoli, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper argues that expectations are an important element that needs to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. We show in a standard matching model that the observed employment effect is higher the lower is the likelihood associated with the minimum...

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The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003

Kambayashi, Ryo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two government surveys to investigate how the minimum wage has affected the wage distribution under...

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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structural approaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wage elasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods. We begin by providing the...

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