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Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?
Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects … of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the minimum wage on the prices of UK goods and services, comparing the … prices of goods produced by industries in which UK minimum wage workers make up a substantial share of total costs with the …
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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
This paper focuses on the role of minimum wages, tax and benefit policies in protecting workers against financial poverty, covering 21 European countries with a national minimum wage and three US States (New Jersey, Nebraska and Texas). It is shown that only for single persons and only in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279269
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Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Le Bihan, Hervé - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of … flexible (S; s) rule. We find a positive and significant impact of the minimum wage on prices. The effect of the minimum wage … on prices is however very protracted. The aggregate impact estimated with our model takes more than a year to fully pass …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566535
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Rent Building, Rent Sharing: A Panel Country-Industry Empirical Analysis
Askenazy, Philippe; Cette, Gilbert; Maarek, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Through panel estimates using OECD country-industry statistics, this paper aims to clarify the determinants of rent creation and the mechanisms of rent sharing, and the role of market regulations in these processes. The empirical analysis is carried out in two steps. The first explains the rent...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives …
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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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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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Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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