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We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of … view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the …
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Supply-side Social Security reforms intended to increase employment and delay benefit claiming among older individuals … age discrimination protections were associated with delayed benefit claiming and increases in employment, with benefit … claiming pushed from 65 to the new FRA, and increased employment after age 62 and age 65 that is then curtailed at the new FRA …
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discrimination laws – raising the cost of employment because of the need to accommodate disabled workers. Moreover, disability …
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U.S. output has expanded only slowly since the recession trough in 2009, even though the unemployment rate has essentially returned to a pre-crisis, normal level. We use a growth-accounting decomposition to explore explanations for the output shortfall, giving full treatment to cyclical effects...
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The goal of this paper is to ascertain whether older women's current and anticipated future labor force patterns have changed over time, and if so, to evaluate the factors associated with longer work lives and plans to continue work at older ages. Using data from both the Health and Retirement...
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We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …
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have two findings to report. First, the data collected by CK appear to indicate greater employment variation over the eight …-month period between their surveys than do the payroll data. For example, in the full sample the standard deviation of employment … change in CK's data is three times as large as that in the payroll data. Second, estimates of the employment effect of the …
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although increases in minimum wages have small net effects on overall teen employment rates, such increases raise the … the small net disemployment effects for teenagers as a group, there are significant enrollment and employment shifts …
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observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …
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We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …
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