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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
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Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank. We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We propose a cross-validation based procedure for model...
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Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
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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Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?
Dube, Arindrajit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics...
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The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Match Stability
Centeno, Mario; Duarte, Claudia; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore increases in the nominal minimum wage in a difference-in-differences setting to estimate match survival wage elasticity. The elasticity is negative and larger than one for matches directly affected by minimum wage increases, those with paying below the new minimum wage. The impact of...
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The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector
Aretz, Bodo; Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper contributes to the sparse literature on employment spillovers on minimum wages by exploiting the minimum wage introduction and subsequent increases in the German roofing sector that gave rise to an internationally unprecedented hard bite of a minimum wage. We look at the chances of...
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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...
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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of the economy: medium and large-scale firms v. small firms...
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