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higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
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higher education improves, further boosting employment in the long run. These positive effects help counteracting the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271987
employment and education. Using a regression discontinuity design in tandem with a difference-in-discontinuities analysis, we … unemployment increases approximately 2 percentage points. We also document that the minimum wage hike does not generate a major … change in high school enrollment, while the likelihood of transitioning into "neither in employment nor in education and …
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sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid …
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sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid …
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This study examines long-term effects of a minimum wage increase using an innovative identification strategy based on categorising workers according to their predicted marginal revenue products. It finds that the increase had a large and persistent disemployment effects on low-paid workers and...
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We analyze how wage setting institutions and job-security provisions interact on unemployment. The assumption that … exercises suggest that redundancy transfers and administrative dismissal restrictions have negligeable unemployment effects when … wages are flexible or when the minimum wage is low, but a dramatic positive impact on unemployment when there is a high …
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because minimum wage increases unemployment, hence the marginal cost of redistribution is higher which gives a pretext for …
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This paper studies how minimum wages affect the wage distribution if firms face financial constraints. Using German employer-employee data and firm balance sheets, we document that the within-firm wage dispersion decreases more with higher minimum wages when firms are financially constrained. We...
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This study follows the Lordan and Neumark (2018) analysis for the US, and examines whether minimum wage increases affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable...
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