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This paper argues that expectations are an important element that need to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. We show in a standard matching model that the observed employment effect is higher the lower is the likelihood associated with the minimum...
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Using worker-level panel data for Turkey, this paper analyses the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low-wage workers in the ratio of total labour costs to...
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average agricultural wage of SEK 333,000. However, the subsidy effect is largely keeping jobs in agriculture, i.e. the …
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion...
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changes in heterogeneity, e.g. increased demand for skilled labor, are also analyzed. In the most reasonable setup, a change …
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labor markets among citizens of the European Community. It provides the results of probit equations estimating the … labor markets. The estimates show a statistically significant, but weak, negative connection between the concentration of … foreigners in a local labor market and the likelihood of employment among European citizens residing in that labor market. The …
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developing economies. I present a dynamic general equilibrium model with informality in both labor and goods markets and where … impact on labor allocation between formal and informal jobs. These results point to the importance of accounting for …
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Unlike previous empirical studies that focus on barriers to entry in international trade, we focus on barriers to exit as measured by passport costs for a crosssection of countries. We test four common theories on the determinants of such exit barriers and find that macroeconomic and brain-drain...
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This paper takes advantage of a recent large firm-level dataset to compare labor indicators of privatized, private, and … public firms around the world, particularly wages, benefits, labor composition, education and training, unionization, and … quality of management. While labor productivity increases after privatization, the ratio of permanent workers to temporary …
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Theoretical and empirical research points to potentially different patterns of labor recruitment and importance of … results suggest that the probability to obtain employment in agriculture (informal sector) increases with the amount of time …
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