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The Effects of Minimum Wages on Employment : Theory and Evidence from the US

Dickens, Richard - 1994

minimum wages depress employment, is not supported by the empirical findings in some labour markets. In this paper we present … employment, but which also allows for the possibility of a neutral or a positive effect. The model structure is based on labour … economic wisdom but in line with several recent studies, do not have a negative impact on employment. If anything, the …

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Whither Poverty in Great Britain and the United States? The Determinants of Changing Poverty and Whether Work Will Work

Dickens, Richard - 2001

Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty levels in Britain and the US based on a set of...

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Remote work across jobs, companies, and space

Lambert, Peter; Hansen, Stephen; Bloom, Nicholas; … - 2023

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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