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Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century
Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16–19-year-old workers. We...
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Skill wage premia, employment, and cohort effects: are workers in Germany all of the same type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268008
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Skill Wage Premia, Employment, and Cohort Effects: Are Workers in Germany All of the Same Type?
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
subsample 1975{1997. It extends the analytical framework of Card and Lemieux (2001) which simultaneously includes skill and age … as important dimensions of heterogeneity. After having identified cohort effects in skill wage premia and in the … evolution of relative employment measures, we estimate elasticities of substitution between employees in three different skill …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763619
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - 2003
skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261577
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Skill-Biased Technical Change in U.S. Manufacturing: A General Index Approach
Baltagi, Badi H.; Rich, Daniel P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
skill-biased technical change effects are most evident prior to 1983. This predates the diffusion of personal computer … price-induced substitution, nonhomothetic output effects and skill-biased technical change responses to a range of proposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761848
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Low-Skilled Jobs and Student Jobs: Employers' Preferences in Slovakia and the Czech Republic
Kureková, Lucia Mýtna; Žilinčíková, Zuzana - 2015
Massification of tertiary education, growing share of student workers on labour market and consequently increased competition for low-skilled jobs gave rise to the theory of crowding out of the less educated workers. This paper contributes to better understanding of temporary...
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The Changing Situation of Labor Market Entrants in Germany: A Long-Run Analysis of Wages and Occupational Patterns
Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016
top-paying jobs, entry wages and wage growth, and skill premia over time. To allow for a detailed analysis, we distinguish …
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Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2018
We investigate the potential channels that drive female labor force participation to rise in response to unbalanced sex ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply, operating through the marriage market, and the other...
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Employment Effects of Payroll Tax Subsidies
Collischon, Matthias; Cygan-Rehm, Kamila; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020
This paper exploits several reforms of wage subsidies in the framework of the German Minijob program to investigate substitution and complementarity relationships between subsidized and non-subsidized labor demand. We apply an instrumental variables approach and use administrative data on German...
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Zukünftige Fachkräfteengpässe in Deutschland?
Dräger, Vanessa - 2014
Gefährdet der demographische Wandel den ökonomischen Wohlstand in Deutschland oder reicht das Arbeitsvolumenangebot aus, um den Arbeitsvolumenbedarf zu decken? In diesem Beitrag wird mittels Wachstumszerlegung der Bedarf für ein fortgeschriebenes BIP-pro-Kopf ermittelt. Dieser wird dem...
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