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Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment : Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era

Neumark, David - 2007

We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence points to disemployment effects that are concentrated among young minority men. For young women, there is little evidence that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception...

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Always Poor or Never Poor and Nothing in Between? Duration of Child Poverty in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - 2021

This paper analyses the duration of child poverty in Germany. In our sample, we observe the entire income history from … the individuals' birth to their coming of age at age 18. Therefore we are able to analyze dynamics in and out of poverty … poverty exit and re-entry to be correlated even after controlling for observable characteristics and also account for …

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A Portrait of Child Poverty in Germany

Corak, Miles; Fertig, Michael; Tamm, Marcus - 2021

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … poverty rates, rates of entry to and exit from poverty, and the duration of time spent in and out of poverty. The analysis … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have …

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The Effects of Living Wage Laws on Low-Wage Workers and Low-Income Families : What Do We Know Now?

Neumark, David - 2013

in urban poverty …

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Simulating the Economic Impacts of Living Wage Mandates Using New Public and Administrative Data : Evidence for New York City

Neumark, David - 2013

Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...

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The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages : Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

Neumark, David - 2018

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for...

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The Employment Effects of State Hiring Credits

Neumark, David - 2015

State and federal policymakers grappling with the aftermath of the Great Recession sought ways to spur job creation, in many cases adopting hiring credits to encourage employers to create new jobs. However, there is virtually no evidence on the effects of these kinds of counter-recessionary...

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A Conceptual Framework for the Evaluation of Comprehensive Labor Market Policy Reforms in Germany

Fertig, Michael; Kluve, Jochen - 2021

Over the last year the German government has introduced a comprehensive set of labor market policy reforms, the so-called Hartz reforms, which aim at a significant reduction of unemployment. To this end, (a) many of the existing instruments of active labor market policy are modified...

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The Effectiveness of Qualification Measures for Employed Workers - an Evaluation Study for Saxony

Fertig, Michael - 2021

This paper investigates whether and to what extent employment policy measures (co-) financed by the European Social Fund in Germany meet their objective. Specifically, it is analyzed whether qualification programs for employed workers in the German state of Saxony were effective in terms of...

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The Impact of Economic Integration on Employment - an Assessment in the Context of EU Enlargement

Fertig, Michael - 2021

This paper is motivated by the idea that the enlargement of the European Union is only one part of an overall process, known as economic integration, which characterizes the involvement of European economies into the global division of labor. Therefore, the paper aims at providing a quantitative...

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