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This paper analyses the term “subsistence” to utilise it for scientific purposes. In doing so, the term will be reconstructed by an evolutionary view. Afterwards, the term will be discussed and develpoped with respect to the so-called paradox of the poverty line.
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Analyzes the causes for the decline in informality in Brazil during the decade of the 2000s. Illustrates the importance …
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This work assesses the impact of the minimum wage on youth employment, unemployment and education enrolment in Spain … intervention depressed the employment levels of the affected group, raised unemployment among them and decreased the probability of … remaining in formal education. …
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This study provides empirical evidence on the impact of a minimum wage increase on employment, wages, and expenditures … minimum wage increase reduced employment of low-wage workers in the formal sector. However, workers who lost formal sector …
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minimum wages on employment. Our main finding is that the controversial result remains valid only for small fast …
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Until the early 90’s a strong consensus existed among economists that minimum wage has negative employment effects … employment measures. Additionally, using 27 moderators as potential explanatory variables in order to explain the variation among …
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The impact of minimum wage on employment has been a field of conflicts among economists in labor economics. This … study on the employment effect of minimum wages during economic recessions using cross-country evidence. In this paper we … account for institutional and other policy related differences that might have an impact on employment other than the minimum …
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This article describes the calculation of London’s first Living Wage, which was set in 2005. It reproduces, in citable form and, for scholarly purposes, the report of the same name produced by the authors for the Greater London Authority.
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This article describes the construction of the workforce employment data used by the Greater London Authority. It … London Authority. This article describes the sources of this data and explains where they can be found. Workforce employment … essential to understand where its estimates of workforce employment come from, what information they provide and how reliable …
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Minimal wage is a partial social and political measure addressed at solving consequences of or existing poverty, which has a general validity. Its goal is to support socially economic motivation of lower-qualified persons. It is commonly fixed at such a sum so that it covers basic socially...
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