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' seasonal agricultural workers from the United States, with the stated goal of raising wages and employment for domestic farm ….S. agricultural wages or employment, and find that important mechanisms for this result include both adoption of less labor …
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determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced … bargaining creates additional impediments for the positive employment consequences of UISAs …
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using the fraction of affected workers as the instrumental variable for the growth of expected wages. The findings show that … States in which the growth of expected wages was relatively large (around 20%) exhibit inflow rate increases that are four to … five times larger than States in which average wages grew 10% less. Placebo tests confirm that the policy did not affect …
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minimum wages negatively affect teen employment to a larger degree than is found in studies that do not account for this … correlation. Their results show a combined direct and indirect effect of minimum wages on teen employment to be -2.1% for a 10 … wages on teen employment …
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This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining...
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The importance of using natural experiments in economic research has long been recognized. Yet, it is only in recent years that natural experiments have become an integral part of the economist's analytical toolbox, thanks to the efforts of Meyer, Card, Peters, Krueger, Gruber, and others. This...
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We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
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This paper quantifies the long-run impact of exposure to youth minimum wages and sheds light on its mechanisms. It uses … translates into: an overall wage premium, consistent with an upgrading in the quality of jobs offered; a flatter tenure …
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This paper presents results from the fourth year of a multi-year, pre-committed research design for analyzing recent minimum wage changes. Using ACS and CPS data through 2018, we find that relatively large minimum wage increases reduced employment among low-skilled individuals by roughly 2.5...
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European countries have increasingly adopted wage subsidies for the sector of domestic services to reduce low-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to estimate how participation in the subsidized domestic...
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