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Richardson, S. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1998

English-speaking ones) together with stubbornly higher levels of unemployment in many others. Australia has shared in the rise … persistent unemployment, butnot to the degree that many continental European countries have. This situation provides the …

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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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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all the growth in inequality in the bottom end, is due to...

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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Job Accessions and Separations from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portugal, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

Changes in legislation in mid-80s Portugal provide remarkable conditions for economic analysis, as the minimum wage increased very sharply for a very specific group of workers. Relying on a matched employer-employee panel dataset, we model gross job flows - accessions and separations - in...

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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S; Nitzan, Shmuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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Youth Employment Policies In France

Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Magnac, Thierry - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

In this paper, we present a summary of recent microeconometric results on the evaluation of the effects of active labour market policies on youth employment in France. We focus our discussion on three types of policies: (1) youth employment schemes for out-of-employment and low-skilled young...

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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In many countries, the authorities turn a blind eye to minimum wage laws that they have themselves passed. But if they are not going to enforce a minimum wage, why have one? Or if a high minimum wage is not going to be enforced one hundred percent, why not have a lower one in the first place?...

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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 involving targeting workers with low incomes/abilities and targeting the unemployed under the criteria of "approximate welfare efficiency" (AWE). Thereby we can identify policies...

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Patterns of Unemployment: An Insider-Outsider Analysis

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper presents a stochastic insider-outsider model that accounts for the following stylized facts: (1) unemployment … rates display a high degree of serial correlation, or `persistence'; (2) the average rate of unemployment has been higher in … long-run unemployment rate is independent of the level of productivity and the magnitude of the labour force. The model …

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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

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 reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …

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