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The Pricing of Job Characteristics When Markets Do Not Clear : Theory and Implications
Lang, Kevin - 2003
This paper examines nonsequential search when jobs vary with respect to nonpecuniary characteristics. In the presence of frictions in the labor market, the equilibrium job distribution need not show evidence of compensating wage differentials. The model also generates several pervasive features...
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Do Minimum Wages Affect Non-wage Job Attributes? Evidence on Fringe Benefits and Working Conditions
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma - 2003
Neoclassical labor market theories imply that employers will react to binding minimum wages by changing the level of employment. A multitude of studies consider this aspect of minimum wages, yet fail to reach a consensus as to its employment effects. While the employment effects of the minimum...
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Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations
Aghion, Philippe - 2008
Can public policy interfere with culture, such as beliefs and norms of cooperation? We investigate this question by evaluating the interactions between the State and the Civil Society, focusing on the labor market. International data shows a negative correlation between union density and the...
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Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations? Chile 1960-1998
Montenegro, Claudio - 2003
Economists have examined the impact of labor market regulations on the level of employment. However, there are many reasons to suspect that the impact of regulations differs across types of workers. In this paper we take advantage of the unusual large variance in labor policy in Chile to exa...
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International Trade Responses to Labor Market Regulations
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies how differences in labor market regulations shape countries' comparative advantage in the cross-border provision of labor-intensive services, using administrative data in Europe for the last two decades. I exploit exogenous variation in labor taxes and minimum wages faced by...
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Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract : The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts
Fishback, Price Van Meter - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The paper examines changes in wage and hour labor regulation between 1898 and 1938. Many see the 1905 Lochner Supreme Court decision striking down hours limits for men as the beginning of 30 years in which labor regulation was stymied by the doctrine of "freedom of contract." That issue played a...
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Who Gets What from Employer Pay or Play Mandates?
Burkhauser, Richard V. - 2007
offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …
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Unintended Consequences? Welfare Reform and the Working Poor
Witte, Ann Dryden - 1998
We have used a unique longitudinal database that incorporates information from diverse administrative and research sources to examine the impact of the early stages of welfare reform on poor working families who do not receive cash assistance. Our data are for 2791 working poor families from...
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Minimum Wages and Poverty : New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates
Burkhauser, Richard V.; McNichols, Drew; Sabia, Joseph J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim ….17 percent increase in the probability of longer-run poverty among all persons. With 95% confidence, we can rule out long …-run poverty elasticities with respect to the minimum wage of less than -0.129, which includes central poverty elasticities …
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The Same Yet Different : Worker Reports on Labour Practices and Outcomes in a Single Firm Across Countries
Freeman, Richard B. - 2007
This paper examines cross-country differences in labour policies and practices and employee performance and attitudes toward work from a sample of nearly 30,000 employees in a large multinational manufacturing firm. The analysis shows: 1) large establishment and country differences in work...
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