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Minimum wage in a deflationary economy: The Japanese experience, 1994–2003
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 264-276
The statutory minimum wage in Japan has increased continuously for a few decades until the early 2000s even during a period of deflation. This paper examines the impact of the minimum wage on wage and employment outcomes under this unusual circumstance. We find that the minimum-wage increase...
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Price effects of minimum wages: Evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013
In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm level in order to differentiate between a...
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Labor market rigidities and economic efficiency: Evidence from Spain
González, Xulia; Miles-Touya, Daniel - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 833-845
In the 1990s, Spain approved two labor reforms aimed at reducing the unemployment level and its volatility. Overall, these reforms involved two measures designed to induce firms to meet their labor needs via adjustment of permanent positions: restricting the use of temporary workers and reducing...
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Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics
Bosch, Mariano; Goñi-Pacchioni, Edwin; Maloney, William - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 653-667
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rise in informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. In particular, we examine the impact of trade and constitutional reforms (that include increased firing costs, tighter restrictions on overtime work, and fewer...
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Analyzing female labor supply — Evidence from a Dutch tax reform
Bosch, Nicole; van der Klaauw, Bas - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 3, pp. 271-280
exogenous variation caused by a substantial Dutch tax reform in 2001. Our main conclusion is that the positive significant … effect of the tax reform on labor force participation dominates the negative insignificant effect on working hours. The …
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The economic impact of taking short parental leave: Evaluation of a French reform
Joseph, Olivier; Pailhé, Ariane; Recotillet, Isabelle; … - In: Labour Economics 25 (2013) C, pp. 63-75
-time parental leave option. It exploits a policy reform that took place in 2004 in France and increased the incentive to prolong the … reform. The results show that full-time short paid parental leave had almost no effect on labour market participation and … wages of first mothers at the global level. However, for part-time paid leave takers, the reform increases the employment …
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Accounting for labor demand effects in structural labor supply models
Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 1, pp. 129-138
microdata level. We show the performance and relevance of our extension by introducing a pure labor supply side reform, the … workfare concept, in Germany and simulating the labor market outcome of the reform. We find that demand effects offset about 25 …% of the positive labor supply effect of the policy reform. …
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Dismissal protection and worker flows in OECD countries: Evidence from cross-country/cross-industry data
Bassanini, Andrea; Garnero, Andrea - In: Labour Economics 21 (2013) C, pp. 25-41
Exploiting a unique dataset including cross-country comparable hiring and separation rates by type of transition for 24 OECD countries, 23 business-sector industries and 13years, we study the effect of dismissal regulations on different types of gross worker flows, defined as one-year...
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Wage inequality, technology and trade: 21st century evidence
Van Reenen, John - In: Labour Economics 18 (2011) 6, pp. 730-741
This paper describes and explains some of the principal trends in the wage and skill distribution in recent decades. Increases in wage inequality started in the US and UK at the end of the 1970s, but are now widespread. A good fraction of this inequality trend is due to technology-related...
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The effect of the minimum wage for tipped workers on firm strategy, employees and social welfare
Azar, Ofer H. - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 748-755
Millions of workers derive much of their income from tips and are subject to the “tipped minimum wage” that differs from the regular minimum wage. This article examines the implications of the tipped minimum wage and shows that increasing it may lead restaurants to adopt a compulsory service...
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