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"Minimum wages are generally thought to be unenforceable in developing rural economies. But there is one solution - a …
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How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...
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the reduced tax will be captured by workers through higher wages rather than by employers through lower labor costs. As a …
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"This paper relies on a simple framework to understand the gender wage gap in Macedonia, and simulates how the gender wage gap would behave after the introduction of a minimum wage. First, it presents a new - albeit simple - decomposition of the wage gap into three factors: (i) a wage level...
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demonstrating its impact on the distribution of wages. In this study the authors analyze cross-country data for 19 Latin American … and Caribbean (LAC) countries to gain an understanding of if and how minimum wages affect wage distributions in LAC … wages affect the wage distribution in both the formal and, especially, the informal sector, both at the minimum wage and at …
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"Concerns about incentives and targeting naturally arise when cash transfers are used to fight poverty. The authors address these concerns in the context of China's Di Bao program, which uses means-tested transfers to try to assure that no registered urban resident has an income below a...
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