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The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy : The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003
Kambayashi, Ryo - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two government surveys to investigate how the minimum wage has affected the wage distribution under...
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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes
Lin, Dajun - 2016
both hourly wages and annual work hours. Fourth, the returns to cognitive skill are greater for women than men and for … corresponding changes in hourly wages. Fifth, the average gains in lifetime incomes predicted to result from greater levels of …
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Who Suffers the Penalty? A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Vietnam
Nguyen, Huu - 2013
In spite of its predominant economic weight in developing countries, little is known about the informal sector earnings structure compared to that of the formal sector. Taking advantage of the VHLSS dataset in Vietnam, in particular its three wave panel data (2002, 2004, 2006), we assess the...
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The Informal Sector Wage Gap : New Evidence Using Quantile Estimations on Panel Data
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
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Informal Versus Formal : A Panel Data Analysis of Earnings Gaps in Madagascar
Nordman, Christophe J. - 2016
Little is known about the informal sector's income structure vis-à-vis the formal sector, despite its predominant economic weight in developing countries. While most of the papers on this topic are drawn from (emerging) Latin American, Asian or some African countries, Madagascar represents an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989835
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Wages, Employment and Tenure of Temporarily Subsidized Workers : Does the Industry Matter?
Stephan, Gesine - 2010
short-run wages, but fared significantly better in the longer run. Second, we compare labor market outcomes of subsidized … wages of workers would not have differed significantly, if they had been hired in another industry instead. However, we find … significant differences in short-term wages, employment and tenure outcomes across industries. Finally, from a fiscal point of …
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The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil : Evidence from Gross Worker Flows
Bosch, Mariano; Goni, Edwin; Maloney, William F. - 2021
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983-2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a far-reaching trade liberalization, and changes in labor legislation through the Constitutional...
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Two Stories of Wage Dynamics in Latin America : Different Policies, Different Outcomes
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo J. - 2018
suggest that Bolivia, which has implemented left-wing economic policies, has experienced a general increase in wages … to changes in formal sector wages …
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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income
Redmond, Paul - 2020
the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 …. For young workers, aged under 25, the effects were far greater, with a 24 percent reduction in the ratio of wages in the …
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Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain
de León, Alba; Dolado, Juan Jose - 2022
This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...
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