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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008

Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...

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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. -- minimum wages ; unemployment ; asymmetric...

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Firm response to competitive shocks : evidence from China's minimum wage policy

Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi; Wang, Gewei - 2017

The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...

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Cash transfer programs and household labor supply

Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela; Sorrenti, … - 2020

Employment contributes to reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer program (CCT) to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. The attendance of labor-market-oriented mentoring...

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Determinants of financial inclusion of urban poor in India : an empirical analysis

Bapat, Dhananjay; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2016

financial inclusion in Pune, a large city of India based on a household survey at an identified slum area. Empirical findings of …

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Roles of social conformity in deviance in poverty : a study on working poverty and educational investment in Bangladesh

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Gangopadhyay, Partha; Rahman, … - 2013

In recent decades the Indian subcontinent has displayed remarkable invariance in the incidence of working poverty despite strong economic performance. It is widely held that education can rescue households from various types of poverty traps created by information problems and incorrect...

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Disrupting education? : experimental evidence on technology-aided instruction in India

Muralidharan, Karthik; Singh, Abhijeet; Ganimian, … - 2017

outcomes in middle school grades in urban India, using a lottery that provided students with a voucher to cover program costs …

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Food for fuel : the effect of U.S. energy policy on Indian poverty

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Hubert, Marie-Hélène; Ural … - 2012

Fuels Mandate. This paper examines the distributional effects of the U.S. mandate on India. First, we use a model with … people the most. About 42 million new poor may be created in India alone. Under imperfect pass-through, this number declines …

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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling

Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011

-level data from India, we find that an increase in female labor supply due to the tariff reductions was associated with a 7 …

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Economy wide impact of the trade integration between Japan and India : a computable general equilibrium analysis

Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; Mukhopadhyay, Kakali - 2013

Japan and India signed the much-awaited Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on 16th February 2011. The …, the study evaluates the economy wide impact of the proposed CEPA between India and Japan at 2020. The study has used a … India and Japan in 2020 after tariff reduction compared to Business as Usual (BAU) scenario. A marginal export growth is …

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