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The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages
Link, Sebastian - 2021
This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315367
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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market : The Spanish Experience
Bentolila, Samuel - 2011
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor 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/10013117509
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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession : France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan Jose; Le … - 2021
French employment protection legislation before the crisis started …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316123
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Reforming an Insider-Outsider Labor Market: The Spanish Experience
Bentolila, Samuel; Dolado, Juan Jose; Jimeno, Juan F. - CESifo - 2011
This paper presents a case study on reforming a very dysfunctional labor 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/10009386357
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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Collischon, Matthias - 2018
establishments (0-9 employees), subsidized Minijob employment comprises large shares of the work force, on average over 40 percent …. For these establishments, robust evidence shows that increasing the subsidization of Minijob employment crowds out non …-subsidized employment. Our results imply that Minijob employment in 2014 may have eliminated more than 0.5 million unsubsidized employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012913189
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Fixed-Term and Permanent Employment Contracts: Theory and Evidence
Cao, Shutao; Shao, Enchuan; Silos, Pedro - CESifo - 2010
This paper constructs a theory of the coexistence of fixed-term and permanent employment contracts in an environment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008511611
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Two-Tier Labor Markets in the Great Recession: France vs. Spain
Bentolila, Samuel; Cahuc, Pierre; Dolado, Juan Jose; … - CESifo - 2010
French employment protection legislation before the crisis started. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799735
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Wage and Employment Effects of Non-Binding Minimum Wages
Dittrich, Marcus - 2010
Common wisdom holds that the introduction of a non-binding minimum wage is irrelevant for actual wages and employment … bargained wages, we show that such minimum wages can drive up wages – and be harmful to employment – when bargaining follows the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139416
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Spillover Effects of Minimum Wages : Theory and Experimental Evidence
Dittrich, Marcus - 2011
We study the spillover effects of minimum wages in a laboratory experiment. In a bilateral firm-worker bargaining setting, we find that the introduction of a minimum wage exerts upward pressure on wages even if the minimum wage is too low to be a binding restriction. Furthermore, raising the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120274
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Is a Minimum Wage an Appropriate Instrument for Redistribution?
Gerritsen, Aart - 2014
We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A minimum wage causes more unemployment, but also leads to more skill formation as unemployment is concentrated on low-skilled workers. A simple condition based on three sufficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059059