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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil?s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...

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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Lemos, Sara - 2004

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal sector, where most of the poor are. Extending the understanding of minimum wage effects both in...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Lemos, Sara - 2004

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...

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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - 2004

Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...

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Some practical guidance for the implementation of propensity score matching

Caliendo, Marco; Kopeinig, Sabine - 2005

researcher has decided to use PSM, he is confronted with a lot of questions regarding its implementation. To begin with, a first …. Each implementation step involves a lot of decisions and different approaches can be thought of. The aim of this paper is … to discuss these implementation issues and give some guidance to researchers who want to use PSM for evaluation purposes. …

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Hidden action, identification, and organization design

Schnedler, Wendelin - 2010

Incentives often fail in inducing economic agents to engage in a desirable activity; implementability is restricted. What restricts implementability? When does re-organization help to overcome this restriction? This paper shows that any restriction of implementability is caused by an...

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