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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of day labor worker centers in improving wages and working conditions of migrant casual workers in the USA. Design/methodology/approach – The paper reports the results of a survey of worker center executive directors and senior...
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of company concern regarding its employees would significantly influence their views of an employment …Employers in the USA often use employment‐at‐will statements in the employment application process to minimize their … suggest that applicants would prefer to join organizations that do not include employment‐at‐will statements in the …
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Presents a theoretical approach to analysing the effects of minimum wages on employment which is intended to conform … effects of minimum wages on employment. The model has the desirable property of not only allowing for the negative effect … pieces of work. Examines the employment effects of the industry‐level system of minimum wages which operated in the UK until …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in China. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper uses the difference-in-difference methodology to estimate the employment and wage impacts of the minimum wage … minimum wages. Findings – The study finds that overall, minimum wages in China do have an adverse employment effect but the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative employment levels of return migrants in Finland with … employment levels, using logistic regression models that account for sex, age, education, mother tongue and place of residence …. Findings – Both male and female return migrants have odds of employment that are only about half those of their non …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relative employment levels of return migrants in Finland with … employment levels, using logistic regression models that account for sex, age, education, mother tongue and place of residence …. Findings – Both male and female return migrants have odds of employment that are only about half those of their non …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in China. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper uses the difference‐in‐difference methodology to estimate the employment and wage impacts of the minimum wage … minimum wages. Findings – The study finds that overall, minimum wages in China do have an adverse employment effect but the …
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Looks at the role of the minimum in wage setting and how it differs among countries and over time. Discusses the differing attributes of minimum wages and their pluses and minuses.
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Examines the extent of low pay in Britain, first by estimating a Lorenz curve and, second, by using a logistic regression approach. Low pay is defined in terms of the first three deciles of the income distribution for all workers. The data are taken from the 1986 Social and Economic Life Survey...
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