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After a decade in which wages and employment fell precipitously in low-skill occupations and expanded in high …-skill occupations, the shape of U.S. earnings and job growth sharply polarized in the 1990s. Employment shares and relative earnings … rose in both low and high-skill jobs, leading to a distinct U-shaped relationship between skill levels and employment and …
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This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
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This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261908
market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …
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market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021893
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761998
the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … the average wage and a reduction in employment of -0.46%. We find that increases in the private sector minimum wage are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762034
This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762344