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Stemming the tide : what have EU countries done to support low-wage workers in an era of downward wage pressures?

Marchal, Sarah; Marx, Ive - 2015

find evidence for eroding relative minimum wages in various EU countries, yet combined with catch-up growth in the new …

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Job protection, minimum wage and unemployment

Cahuc, Pierre; Zylberberg, André - 1999

We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that wages are renegotiated by mutual agreement only is introduced in a matching model with endogenous job destruction - la Mortensen and Pissarides (1994) in order to get wage profiles...

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Minimum wage and the average wage in France : a circular relationship?

Cette, Gilbert; Chouard, Valérie; Verdugo, Gregory - 2013

This paper investigates whether increases in the minimum wage in France have the same impact on the average wage when intended to preserve the purchasing power of the minimum wage as when intended to raise it. We find that the impact of the minimum wage on the average wage is strong, but differs...

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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings

Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014

Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...

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Minimum wages and employment in China

Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - 2013

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. This paper uses county-level minimum wage panel data and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative...

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Minimum wage : does it improve welfare in Thailand?

Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Messina, Julián; Sanz de … - 2014

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and...

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Credible research designs for minimum wage studies

Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - 2013

We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...

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Minimum wages and aggregate job growth : causal effect or statistical artifact?

Dube, Arindrajit - 2013

A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this … employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it … results indicate that the negative association between minimum wages and aggregate employment growth does not represent a …

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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective

Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014

This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...

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The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers

Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K.; Yang Wang - 2016

This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...

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