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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032858
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Policy Complementarities: The Case for Fundamental Labour Market Reform
Coe, David T; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791663
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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa
Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
What happens when a previously uncovered labour market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no statistically significant effects on the intensive or...
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Comparing the Effectiveness of Employment Subsidies
Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
This paper analyses theoretically and empirically how employment subsidies should be targeted. We contrast measures … efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies that (a)improve employment and welfare, (b)do not raise earnings inequality …
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The Behavioural Effects of Minimum Wages
Falk, Armin; Fehr, Ernst; Zehnder, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
wage than before its introduction. As a consequence, the employment effects of removing the minimum wage are significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124189
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Cognitive Ability and Paternalism
Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper analyses the welfare effects of price restrictions on private contracting in a world where agents have a limited cognitive ability. People compute the costs and benefits of entering a transaction with an error. The government knows the distribution of true costs and benefits as well...
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The Role Of The Minimum Wage In The Welfare State: An Appraisal
Dolado, Juan J.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …
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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan J.; Jimeno, Juan F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labour market with a deep insider-outsider divide, namely the Spanish case. We show how a dual market, with permanent and temporary employees makes real reform much harder, and leads to purely marginal changes that do not alter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364997
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Employment Consequences of Restrictive Permanent Contracts: Evidence from Spanish Labour Market Reforms
Hernanz, Virginia; Jimeno, Juan F; Kugler, Adriana D. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Temporary employment contracts allowing unrestricted dismissals were introduced in Spain in 1984 and quickly came to … account for most new jobs. In 1997, however, the Spanish government attempted to reduce the incidence of temporary employment … contract regulations on employment and worker flows. Using data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey, we find that the reduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124123
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Evaluating the Employment Impact of a Mandatory Job Search Programme
Blundell, Richard William; Costa Dias, Monica; Meghir, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
programme significantly raised transitions to employment by about five percentage points (about 20% over the pre-program base …
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