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A holistic assessment of the labor market effects of minimum wage regulation requires understanding employer compliance … enforcement regimes play an important role in shaping both baseline compliance rates and the response of compliance to increases …
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This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance to sectoral minimum wages in Italy between … median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not negligible: on average around 10% of workers are paid one fifth less than … the reference minimum wage. Non-compliance is particularly high in the South and in micro and small firms and it affects …
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by country, but also by the variations in compliance. We find that higher Kaitz indices are associated with higher levels … of non-compliance. The release of country-level earnings and employment data at regular intervals lies at the heart of a …
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(extensions longer than expected) relate with a lower willingness to comply. In a context where individual compliance has …
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We develop a multiple-events model and exploit within and between country variation in the timing, type and level of intensity of various non-pharmaceutical interventions to study their dynamic effects on the daily incidence of COVID-19 and on population mobility patterns across 135 countries....
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In March 2020, shelter-in-place and social-distancing policies have been enforced or recommended all over the world to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. However, strict containment is hardly achievable in low-income countries, as large parts of population are forced to continue income-generating...
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regulation. We examine the consequences of imperfect compliance by looking at the heterogenous effects of minimum wages across … compliance regimes in India from 1999-2011. We find noncompliance rates as high as 90% for some unskilled workers in India. We …, household consumption increases following increases in the minimum wage; however, compliance matters. The beneficial pass …
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average wage ratios were associated with higher levels of non-compliance, this effect was present within countries over time …
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Using Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of "wage theft" - wage payments below the statutory minimum wage - falls disproportionately on various demographic groups following minimum wage increases. For most racial and ethnic groups at most ages we find...
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Strict containment limits the spread of pandemics but is difficult to achieve when people must continue to work to avoid poverty. A new role is emerging for income support: by enabling people to effectively stay home, it can produce substantial health externalities. We examine this issue using...
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