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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Gregory, Terry - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823558
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Labor Market Effects of a Minimum Wage : Evidence from Ecuadorian Monthly Administrative Data
Choi, Jaerim; Rivadeneyra, Ivan; Ramirez, Kenia - 2021
When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235105
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Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023
This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356608
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Long-Term Effects of Hiring Subsidies for Unemployed Youths—Beware of Spillovers
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2022
We use (donut) regression discontinuity design and difference-in-differences estimators to estimate the impact of a one-shot hiring subsidy targeted at low-educated unemployed youths during the Great Recession recovery in Belgium. The subsidy increases job-finding in the private sector by 10...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244086
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Dissecting Between-Plant and Within-Plant Wage Dispersion - Evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel - 2019
Using rich linked employer-employee data for (West) Germany between 1996 and 2014, we analyze the most important … the sources of the recent slowdown in German wage inequality and compare the results for West Germany to the ones for East … Germany. We disentangle the relative contribution of each single variable to the rise in wage dispersion using recentered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892230
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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314827
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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns
Neumark, David - 2019
I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892198
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Wage and Employment Impact of Minimum Wage : Evidence from Lithuania
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Tarasonis, Linas - 2022
This paper evaluates the worker-level effects of a historically large and permanent increase in the minimum wage in Lithuania. Our identification strategy leverages variation in workers’ exposure to the new minimum wage, and exploits the fact that there has been no increase in the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242148
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Employment and Reallocation Effects of Higher Minimum Wages
Drechsel-Grau, Moritz - 2023
This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377387
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The price and employment response of firms to the introduction of minimum wages
Link, Sebastian - 2019
Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018266