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One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on...
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the minimum wage, including wages, hours, employment, and ultimately labor income, representing the central margins of … surprisingly, higher-wage workers are little affected. Although wages of low-wage workers increase, their hours and employment …
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employment but do have impacts on wage inequality. However we lack models that can explain these facts – this paper presents one …
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This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980 and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive tool in developing countries, we find that the...
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employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a …
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This paper investigates the impact on the wage distribution of the introduction, in April 1999, of the National Minimum Wage in the UK. Because of the structure of UK earnings statistics, it is not straightforward to investigate this and a number of different methods for adjusting the published...
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This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from …
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This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …
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Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...
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Theoretical predictions of the effect of TFP growth on employment are ambiguous, and depend on the extent to which new … technology is embodied in new jobs. We estimate a model for employment, wages and investment with an annual panel for the United … States, Japan and Europe and find that TFP growth increases employment. For the United States TFP growth explains the trend …
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