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approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage … probability of sector status given wage recovers the relationship between latent sector status and wages. I apply the method in … strongly affects wage inequality, reducing up to 20% the standard deviation of log-wages, and reduces revenues from labor taxes …
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empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … the informal sector, and on labour tax revenues. The study finds that while minimum wage policy can increase average wages … workers who would enjoy relatively high wages even in the absence of unions. Consequently, the authors argue that reforms in …
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Alors que les adeptes des lois sur le salaire minimum les considèrent comme essentielles pour améliorer le bien-être social et économique, la mise en application des lois sur le salaire minimum peut aussi entraîner une hausse du chômage et un déplacement des travailleurs dans le secteur...
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non-official languages at work have lower wages than those who use only English at work. …
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the earnings data that has been used in the past. Wages more closely correspond to the price of labour, which is the focus … gender differences in wages with gender differences in decisions of how much to work (i.e., hours). Our results reveal … only 0.72. We also find that as the gender wage ratio has risen, the remaining gap in wages is increasingly unexplained in …
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This study investigates post-migration educational investment among newly arrived immigrants and examines the effect of post-migration education on new immigrants’ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status. The results indicate that younger immigrants who...
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network should have higher wages than those finding a job through formal channels. Moreover, this wage differential is … wages for those with weak networks, and the interaction between network strength and finding a job through the network is …
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Abstract We study a market search equilibrium with aggregate uncertainty, private information and heterogeneus beiefs. Traders initially start out optimistic and then update their beliefs based on their matching experience in the market, using the Bayes rule. It is shown that all separating...
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This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four major admission categories (skill-assessed independent economic principal applicants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual...
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Higher income neighbourhoods in Canada’s eight largest cities flourished economically during the past quarter century, while lower income communities stagnated. This paper identifies some of the underlying processes that led to this outcome. Increasing family income inequality drove much...
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