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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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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...

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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Oviedo, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...

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Who Remits? The Case of Nicaragua

Naufal, George S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

In this paper I use a unique data set from Nicaragua to asses the behavior of persons who send money back home. I estimate a heteroskedastic Tobit with a known form of variance to estimate the correlation of the remitting decisions of migrants. Working, residing in a developed country and...

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Why Remit? The Case of Nicaragua

Naufal, George - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

In the last two decades remittances have gained interest due to their large size. For several developing countries remittances constitute a large portion of their GDP and sometimes exceed FDI. While FDIs are usually profit driven, it is not clear what the driving force behind remittances is....

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The Distribution of Income in Central America

Gindling, T. H.; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other...

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Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

The paper explores the link between different institutional features of minimum wage systems and the minimum wage bite. We notably address the striking absence of studies on sectoral-level minima and exploit unique data covering 17 European countries and information from more than 1100...

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Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Eichhorst, Werner; Hinte, Holger; Rinne, Ulf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … in Europe. Indeed, in contrast to the pre-crisis situation and the findings of previous empirical studies, there is … tentative evidence that the migration response to the crisis has been considerable in Europe, in contrast to the United States …

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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey

Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

supply elasticities for Western Europe and the US. We also investigate the relative contribution of different methodological …, both in the US and in Europe. …

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