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find significant effects from minimum wages on employment and monthly wages. However, we find a considerable negative …In this study, we examine the impact of minimum wages in Vietnam using individual-level data from the 2012-2020 annual …. Since total wages remain unchanged, a reduction in working hours results in an increase in hourly income. A 1% increase in …
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the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the … legislation did not seem to have had any impact on the extensive margin in terms of employment opportunities or the probability of …
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workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact on employment outside the capital city, Montevideo, and observed a …
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During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum wage on the probability of making a transition into and...
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We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National … Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to evaluate the procyclicality of employment effect … and show that previous estimates may be biased due to failure to account for the local non-employment rate. Contrary to …
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This study examines the influence of the statutory minimum wage on labor demand elasticities regarding low-skilled workers. For this, a regression discontinuity analysis is conducted using company panel data from 2013 to 2018. In addition, a possible endogeneity of the remuneration for...
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youth employment and education in Turkey. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference …-in-discontinuities analysis, we find that increasing the minimum wage reduces the employment probability of young males by 2.5-3.1 percentage …, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and training" (NEET) category notably …
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transmission. We offer the first study that examines the effects of the COVID-19-induced lockdown on various employment outcomes … rate, the temporary layoff rate, and decreases the quality of employment. It also reduces workers' numbers of working hours … and their monthly incomes and wages. Our estimation results remain robust to different model specifications and estimation …
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COVID-19 substantially decreased employment, but the effects vary among demographic and socioeconomic groups. We … document the employment losses in April 2020 across various groups using the U.S. Current Population Survey. The unemployment … rate understates employment losses. We focus on the percentage of the civilian population that is employed and at work …
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LSDVC estimates, this study finds a significant labourfriendly impact of R&D expenditures. However, this positive employment …
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