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Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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At first blush, most advances in labour demand were achieved by the late 1980s. Since then progress might appear to have stalled. We argue to the contrary that significant progress has been made in understanding labour market frictions and imperfections, and in modelling search behaviour and...
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We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum … given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant …-and-bar sector, after controls for trends in sector employment at the county level are incorporated in the model. Employment in this …
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This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county … the evidence suggests modest (but robust) positive employment effects. One explanation we consider for these 'perverse …
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Taking as our point of departure a model proposed by David Card (2001), we suggest new methods for analyzing wage dispersion in a partially unionized labor market. Card's method disaggregates the labor population into skill categories, which procedure entails some loss of information....
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Atypical employment arrangements such as agency temporary work and contracting have long been criticized as offering … more precarious and unstable work than regular employment. Using data from two datasets - the CAEAS and the NLSY79 we … determine whether workers who take such jobs rather than regular employment, or the alternative of continued job search …
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-ended employment. In an important paper, Booth et al. (2002) were among the first to recognize that notwithstanding their potential …/consulting work ; regular open-ended employment ; earnings development …
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This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers’ compensation, living wages, and prevailing...
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that...
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handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of …-disparate employment trends ; recession …
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