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The Subminimum Wage Reform in Greece and the Labour-Labour Substitution Hypothesis
Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2018
probit models and find that after the reform there was no statistically significant change in the differential employment …-sector employees of this group after the reform. Moreover, the reform had no significant differential impact on employment terminations …
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What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Holmlund, Bertil - 2014
(UI), and employment protection legislation (EPL). It is argued that research on UI is largely a success story, involving … result of frequent failures to find noticeable employment effects despite considerable effects on wages. EPL research has … established that employment protection reduces labor and job turnover but the jury is still out regarding the impact on overall …
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Asymmetric information renders minimum wages less harmful
Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2009
We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information.
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North-South technology transfer in unionised multinationals
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Meland, Frode; Straume, Odd Rune - 2010
We study how incentives for North-South technology transfers in multinational enterprises are affected by labour market institutions. If workers are collectively organised, incentives for technology transfers are partly governed by firms' desire to curb trade union power. This will affect not...
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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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Minimum Wage Non-Compliance: The Role of Co-Determination
Goerke, Laszlo; Pannenberg, Markus - 2023
We analyse in what way co-determination affects non-compliance with the German minimum wage, which was introduced in 2015. The Works Constitution Act (WCA), the law regulating co-determination at the plant level, provides works councils with indirect means to ensure compliance with the statutory...
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Price Floors and Employer Preferences: Evidence from a Minimum Wage Experiment
Horton, John - 2017
Minimum hourly wages were randomly imposed on firms posting job openings in an online labor market. A higher minimum wage raised the wages of hired workers substantially. However, there was some reduction in hiring and large reductions in hours-worked. Treated firms hired more productive...
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Minimum Wages and Relational Contracts
Fahn, Matthias - 2016
quality, as well as the efficiency of an employment relationship. Hence, it can be explained why productivity and service … consequently employment. Therefore, the present article presents a new perspective on reasons for why minimum wages often have no … or only negligible employment effects. …
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Trade Exposure and the Decline in Collective Bargaining: Evidence from Germany
Baumgarten, Daniel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2019
We analyze the effect of the increase in trade exposure induced by the rise of China and the transformation of Eastern Europe on collective bargaining coverage of German plants in the period 1996–2008. We exploit cross-industry variation in trade exposure and use trade flows of other...
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Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining
Belloc, Marianna; Naticchioni, Paolo; Vittori, Claudia - 2018
In this paper, we estimate the urban wage premia (UWP) in Italy, with its economy characterized by the interplay between collective bargaining and spatial heterogeneity in the cost of living. We implement a reduced-form regression analysis using both nominal and real (in temporal and spatial...
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