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Female Labour Force Participation and Child Education in India : The Effect of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme

Afridi, Farzana - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation of the...

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The Unfairness of (Poverty) Targets

Allwine, Melanie - 2013

their initial conditions in terms of poverty and inequality levels.This paper presents a framework to quantify how much … initial conditions affect poverty reduction, given a level of "effort" (growth). The framework used in the analysis allows for … the growth elasticity of poverty to vary according to changes in the income distribution along the dynamic path of growth …

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The Combined Employment Effects of Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation : A Meta-Analysis

Boockmann, Bernhard - 2010

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the...

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Minimum Wages in Kenya

Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...

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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations

Aghion, Philippe; Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2021

Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate his question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...

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Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women

Averett, Susan - 2017

States are increasingly resorting to raising the minimum wage to boost the earnings of those at the bottom of the income distribution. In this paper, we examine the effects of minimum wage increases on the health of low-educated Hispanic women, who constitute a growing part of the U.S. labor...

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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment : A Cross-Country Analysis

Addison, John T. - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...

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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked : Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023

A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...

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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua

Alaniz, Enrique - 2011

uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … probability that a poor worker's family will move out of poverty, and b) increases in legal minimum wages are more likely to … reduce the incidence of poverty if they impact the head of the household rather than the non-head …

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