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No extension without representation? : evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/5, pp. 1-31
negative impact on employment growth. This effect is concentrated among nonaffiliated firms, which may reflect the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292607
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Female labour market outcomes and the impact of maternity leave policies
Low, Hamish; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-22
This paper shows how family policies aimed at reconciling the pressures of family and work generate substantial variation in labour market outcomes across developed countries. We use a life-cycle model of female labour supply and savings behaviour, calibrated to the US economy, to assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428397
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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16
Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using … overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper … investigates whether such considerations call into question findings of statistically insignificant employment effects reported in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428629
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The impact of Craigslist's entry on competing employment websites
Brenčič, Vera - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 7, pp. 1-15
short period of time, thereby changing abruptly the market structure faced by competing employment websites. We exploit this … associated with a decrease in the number of visitors that an average competing employment website attracted and with a decrease … in the number of pages an average visitor reviewed during a typical visit. We also find that employment websites lowered …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524911
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Multiple job holding, local labor markets, and the business cycle
Hirsch, Barry T.; Husain, Muhammad M.; Winters, John V. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 5 (2016) 4, pp. 1-29
About 5 % of US workers hold multiple jobs, which can exacerbate or mitigate employment changes over the business cycle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457862
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Business income dynamics and labor market fluidity
Hyatt, Henry R.; Murray, Seth; Sandusky, Kristin - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 10 (2021) 1, pp. 1-51
The share of the U.S. population that receives business income has increased substantially in recent decades. At the same time, worker hire and separation rates declined, with worrying implications for productivity and wage growth. In this paper, we explore the relationship between business...
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The recent decline in employment dynamics
Hyatt, Henry R.; Spletzer, James - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
We document and attempt to explain the recent decline in employment dynamics in the U.S. We have four major empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221128
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On the robustness of minimum wage effects: Geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16
Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using … overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper … investigates whether such considerations call into question findings of statistically insignificant employment effects reported in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603353
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No extension without representation? Evidence from a natural experiment in collective bargaining
Hijzen, Alexander; Martins, Pedro S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 5, pp. 1-31
negative impact on employment growth. This effect is concentrated among nonaffiliated firms, which may reflect the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014550249
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Exploiting the Irish border to estimate minimum wage impacts in Northern Ireland
McVicar, Duncan; Park, Andrew; McGuinness, Séamus - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 8 (2019) 2, pp. 1-20
of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the … that estimates the impacts of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours worked using difference-in-differences estimation. We … find a small decrease in the employment rate of 22-59/64-year-olds in NI, of up to 2% points, in the year following the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290386