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Der Mindestlohn im Dachdeckerhandwerk: Auswirkungen auf Beschäftigung, Arbeitnehmerschutz und Wettbewerb
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Rammer, … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Mindestlohn führt vor allem in Ostdeutschland auch im internationalen Vergleich zu einer starken Betroffenheit der Branche vom … Mindestlohn. Die damit einhergehende effektive Kostenbelastung fällt dennoch begrenzt aus. Auf der Basis von Differenz …-von-Differenzen-Schätzungen sowohl im Vergleich zu einer nicht von einem Mindestlohn betroffenen Baunebenbranche als auch auf Basis eines Vergleichs von …
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Auswirkungen des gesetzlichen Mindestlohnes auf die Beschäftigung und den Arbeitnehmerschutz in der Abfallwirtschaft
Guertzgen, Nicole; Sprietsma, Maresa; Niefert, Michaela; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
Betroffenheit der Branche vom Mindestlohn mit ca. 23% der Unternehmen und 6% der Beschäftigten als gering einzustufen ist. Die …
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The minimum wage affects them all: Evidence on employment spillovers in the roofing sector
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...
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Minimum wages and competition: The case of the German roofing sector
Kraft, Kornelius; Rammer, Christian; Gottschalk, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2012
This paper analyses the effects of minimum wages on competition in the German roofing sector. The case is particularly interesting since this sector is faced with a uniform minimum wage despite significant regional disparities in productivity and wages. As a control industry we take the plumbing...
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Efficiency Wages and the Economic Effects of the Minimum Wage: Evidence from a Low-Wage Labour Market
Georgiadis, Andreas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
We exploit a natural experiment provided by the 1990 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) to investigate the relationship between wages and monitoring and to test for Efficiency Wages considerations in a low-wage sector, the UK residential care homes industry. Our findings seem to...
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Why Has the British National Minimum Wage Had Little or No Impact on Employment?
Metcalf, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
A century has passed since the first call for a British national minimum wage (NMW). That remarkable Fabian tract discussed wage setting, coverage, monopsony, international labour standards, inspection and compliance and the interaction between the NMW and the social security system. The NMW was...
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When the minimum wage bites back: Quantile treatment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Gregory, Terry - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2014
In this study we investigate the minimum wage (MW) effects for a German sub-construction sector where the MW bites extraordinary hard by international standards. Within a quasiexperiment we estimate the Quantile Treatment Effects of the MW on the conditional and unconditional distribution of...
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The livelihood effects of industrialization on displaced households: Evidence from falta special economic zone, West Bengal
Paul, Saumik; Sarma, Vengadeshvaran - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2013
Much of the debate on industrialization and displacement has, so far, focused on the optimum compensation for affected households. Our recently concluded study, comprising of a sample of 1017 households including 630 affected (displaced and land acquired) and 387 unaffected households, looks at...
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The Effect of Trade Liberalization on Informality and Wages: Evidence from Mexico
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
This paper studies the impact of NAFTA on informality and real wages in Mexico. Using a dynamic industry model with firm heterogeneity, it is predicted that import tariff elimination could reduce the incidence of informality by making more profitable to some firms to enter the formal sector,...
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Educational expansion and its heterogeneous returns for wage workers
Gebel, Michael; Pfeiffer, Friedhelm - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007
The paper examines the evolution of returns to education in the West German labour market over the last two decades. During this period, graduates from the period of educational expansion in the sixties and seventies entered the labour market and an upgrading of the skill structure took place....
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