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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822091

Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761644

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal sector, where most of the poor are. Extending the understanding of minimum wage effects both in...

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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...

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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

There is very little empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper estimates the minimum wage price effect using monthly Brazilian household and firm data from 1982 to 2000 aggregated at a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762065

Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...

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Does the Expansion of Higher Education Increase the Equality of Educational Opportunities? Evidence from Italy

Bratti, Massimiliano; Checchi, Daniele; de Blasio, Guido - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

opportunities. It examines Italy’s experience during the 1990s, when policy changes prompted HE institutions to offer a wider range …

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Training and the Density of Economic Activity: Evidence from Italy

Brunello, Giorgio; de Paola, Maria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

We use a search and matching model to investigate the economic relationship between training and local economic conditions. We identify two aspects of this relationship going in opposite directions: on the one hand, the complementarity between local knowledge spillovers and training generates a...

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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

researchers who have at least a bachelor’s from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US …. Ceteris paribus, both push and pull factors are important. While having a Ph.D. from outside Italy predicts the UK choice …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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