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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 …

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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

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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 …

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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

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One way the demand for labor may adapt to the availability of labor

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2012

This paper presents and tests a model that may partially explain why the demand for labor adapts to the availability of labor. In particular, I postulate that the cost of hiring declines with increases in the amount of labor available. The cost of hiring would decrease with a growth in available...

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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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Adjusting Labor along the Intensive MarginS

Biddle, Jeff E.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2024

We expand the analysis of cyclical changes in labor demand by decomposing changes along the intensive margin into those in days/week and in hours/day. Using large cross sections of U.S. data, 1985-2018, we observe around ¼ of the adjustment in weekly hours occurring through changing days/week....

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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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