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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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relatively low compared to mean wages, the minimum wage affects the more disadvantaged segments of the labor force, namely …
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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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? Using a microeconometric model of the casual labor market in rural India, the authors find that a guaranteed wage rate …
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As developing economies continue to mature and enter the next phase of reforms, labor market issues and key policy … countries to make labor markets more flexible so as not to hurt competitiveness. At the same time, policymakers face pressure to … rethink labor market regulations (and social safety nets) to avoid disadvantaging workers, especially the most vulnerable who …
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