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Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being : Evidence from the Child Care Market

Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2023

-saving practices, such as raising prices, increasing child-to-staff ratios, and serving fewer children in the child care subsidy system … less satisfied with their child care provider, a result we attribute to the increase in prices …

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Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages

Demir, Gökay - 2023

This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of the minimum wage on workers and industries outside the minimum wage sector. The results show that...

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Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation

Haelbig, Mirja; Mertens, Matthias; Müller, Steffen - 2023

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of output price increases. We find higher wages but no...

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

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Seamus - 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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Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability

Draca, Mirko - 2013

Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a significant impact on wages, but only a limited...

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Restaurant Prices and the Minimum Wage

Fougère, Denis - 2009

We examine the effect of the minimum wage on restaurant prices. We contribute to both the study of economic impact of … flexible (S; s) rule. We find a positive and significant impact of the minimum wage on prices. The effect of the minimum wage … on prices is however very protracted. The aggregate impact estimated with our model takes more than a year to fully pass …

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Does the Minimum Wage Have a Higher Impact on the Informal than on the Formal Labor Market? Evidence from Quasi-Experiments

Khamis, Melanie - 2009

This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the case of the minimum...

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A Behavioral Account of the Labor Market : The Role of Fairness Concerns

Fehr, Ernst - 2008

In this paper, we argue that important labor market phenomena can be better understood if one takes (i) the inherent incompleteness and relational nature of most employment contracts and (ii) the existence of reference-dependent fairness concerns among a substantial share of the population into...

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People versus Machines in the UK : Minimum Wages, Labor Reallocation and Automatable Jobs

Lordan, Grace - 2019

This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable...

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The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition : Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages

Matano, Alessia - 2019

A growing body of research has contributed to understanding the labor market and political effects of globalization. This paper explores an overlooked aspect of trade-induced adjustments in the labor market: the institutional aspect. We take advantage of the two-tier collective bargaining...

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