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This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant …
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Most economists maintain that the labor market in the United States (and elsewhere) is tight because unemployment rates … are low and the Beveridge Curve (the vacancies-to-unemployment ratio) is high. They infer from this that there is … stagnant for some time. We show that unemployment is not key to understanding wage formation in the USA and hasn t been since …
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This paper examines how college students in the United States altered their college major decisions during the energy boom and bust of the 1970s and 1980s. We focus on petroleum engineering and geology, two majors closely related to the energy industry. We find strong evidence that the energy...
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This paper investigates whether individuals living in neighbourhoods with high concentrations of unemployment are less …
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regional labour markets. However, distortions in extracting the regional unemployment effects arise in standard regional (i … unemployment is often ignored. Both issues are particularly important in high unemployment regimes like East Germany where a wage …
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The Mortensen-Pissarides model with unemployment benefits and taxes has been able to account for the variation in … unemployment rates across countries but does not explain why geographical mobility is very low in some countries (on average, three … times lower in Europe than in the U.S.). We build a model in which both unemployment and mobility rates are endogenous. Our …
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This study analyzes state dependence in low-wage employment of western German women using GSOEP data, 2000-2006. We … that for women low-wage jobs can serve as stepping stones out of unemployment and are to be preferred to staying unemployed …
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find evidence in favor of the Polish wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of -0.06. We also find that males in Poland … are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.08) than their female counterparts (-0.04). Moreover, if … the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate, we find that the unemployment …
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26 NUTS-2 regions over the period 2005-2008. When the local unemployment rate is treated as predetermined, there is … evidence in favor of the wage curve only for younger and female workers. However, if the lagged unemployment rate is used as an … instrument for current unemployment rate, we find an unemployment elasticity of -0.099. We also find a higher elasticity for …
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This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment … home-state unemployment rate. Comparing these estimates to realized losses in post-service civilian earnings resulting from … exiting the military during times of high unemployment suggests that mitigating factors (e.g., leisure, private and public …
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