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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
What is the impact of raising the minimum wage on family incomes? Analysing the characteristics of low wage workers, I find that those who earn near-minimum wages are disproportionately female, unmarried and young, without post-school qualifications and overseas born. About one-third of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032858
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Re-Examining the Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants
Galloway, Taryn Ann - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2008
Studies on the earnings assimilation of immigrants have traditionally focused exclusively on immigrants in employment … immigrants are able to quickly enter and remain in the labor market. This study thus re-examines evidence on the earnings … experience in the host country. The findings suggest that a major revision of previous conclusions about the earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980935
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Health Status After Cancer. Does It Matter Which Hospital You Belong To?
Fiva, Jon H.; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rønning, Marte - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2009
Survival rates are widely used to compare quality of health care. In this paper we introduce post-illness employment as a supplemental indicator of successful treatment of serious diseases. Utilizing rich register based data on cancer patients we document substantial differences across Norwegian...
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The Transformation of Australia's Population, 1970 to 2030 Labour Force, Employment and Unemployment
Chapman, Bruce; Kapuscinsky, Cezary - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971393
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Mother’s employment and fertility in Norway
Gerster, Mette; Lappegård, Trude - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2010
This paper concerns the effect of employment status on second- and third-birth intensities for Norwegian mothers in the period 1994-2002. Due to unobserved heterogeneity possibly affecting both the birth and the employment processes we employ a simultaneous equations approach for hazard models,...
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