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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

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The Short-Term Effect of the COVID-19 Crisis on Employment Probabilities of Labour-Market Entrants in the Netherlands

Bussink, Henri; Vervliet, Tobias; ter Weel, Bas - 2022

Netherlands. Two recent cohorts of graduates are studied and compared to two pre-COVID-19 cohorts: the 2019 cohort was …

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Trade and Worker Deskilling

Dhingra, Swati - 2019

This paper presents new evidence on international trade and worker outcomes. It examines a big world event that produced an unprecedentedly large shock to the UK exchange rate. In the 24 hours in June 2016 during which the UK electorate unexpectedly voted to leave the European Union, the value...

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What Do We Really Know About the Employment Effects of the Uk's National Minimum Wage?

Brewer, Mike - 2019

A substantial body of research on the UK's National Minimum Wage (NMW) has concluded that the the NMW has not had a detrimental effect on employment. This research has directly influenced, through the Low Pay Commission, the conduct of policy, including the subsequent introduction of the...

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Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-Employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2022

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...

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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B for Brexit : A Survey of the Economics Academic Literature

Campos, Nauro F. - 2019

This paper surveys the economics academic literature on Brexit. It is organised in: pillars, channels, and consequences. The two building blocks to understand Brexit are the economic history of the UK-EU relationship and the literature on the political economy of globalisation and populism. The...

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Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment : The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited

Bazen, Stephen - 2016

In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...

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Reforming German Labor Market Institutions : A Dual Path to Flexibility

Eichhorst, Werner - 2009

Germany has always been one of the prime examples of institutional complementarities between social insurance, a rather …

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Vouchers and Caseworkers in Public Training Programs : Evidence from the Hartz Reform in Germany

Rinne, Ulf - 2009

administrative data set, we apply matching and regression methods to measure the effect of the Hartz reform in Germany, which … important type of training in Germany, we find a slightly positive impact of the reform. Our decomposition results suggest that …

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