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Separating employment effects into job destruction and job creation : evidence from a large minimum wage increase in the agricultural sector using administrative tax data
Piek, Marlies; Fintel, Dieter von; Kirsten, Johann F. - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from the destruction of existing jobs and from the slower...
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The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Viet Nam's micro, small, and medium enterprises
Dung, Phan Kim - 2017
Very little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to mitigate the detrimental effects of minimum wage regulation. Do micro establishments react more aggressively to minimum wage shocks compared to small and medium establishments? To...
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Rent sharing, wage floors, and development
Budlender, Joshua; Bassier, Ihsaan - 2023
Faced with more favourable demand conditions, many firms raise wages. However, we show that firms with labour market power, lower productivity, and binding wage floors will absorb these positive revenue productivity shocks as excess profits instead of increasing wages or employment. Our...
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Minimum wage and tax kink effects in the formal and informal sectors in Zambia
Bryson, Samuel; Mwale, Evaristo; Adu-Ababio, Kwabena - 2024
This paper explores two policy interventions in Zambia, a minimum wage hike in 2018 and an upward revision in the first kink in the progressive income tax schedule in 2017, to examine and compare the impact of minimum wage and tax kink changes on wages and the earnings distribution in the formal...
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Minimum wage and informality in Ecuador
Canelas, Carla - 2014
This paper investigates if changes in the minimum wage have influenced changes on the formality and informality rates, and the level of wages in Ecuador. A 12-year panel was built. It allows to overcome the short time span of household data and so to characterize changes over time. Results...
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Minimum wages and changing wage inequality in India
Khurana, Saloni; Mahajan, Kanika; Sen, Kunal - 2023
Using nationally representative data on employment and earnings, this paper documents a fall in wage inequality in India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers in India in contributing to the observed decline....
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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon : 2005 - 10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
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Education, skill, and earnings : further evidence from Ghana
Ackah, Charles; Adjasi, Charles Komla Delali; Turkson, … - 2014
This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …
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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy : the case of South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Lilenstein, Kezia; Oosthuizen, Morné; … - 2020
Earnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world. We investigate whether the drivers of this example of wage polarization in an emerging economy resemble those explored for...
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The effects of the Employment Tax Incentive on South African employment
Ebrahim, Amina; Leibbrandt, Murray V.; Ranchhod, Vimal - 2017
South Africa's Employment Tax Incentive, launched in 2014, aimed to address low youth employment by reducing the cost of hiring young workers. We make use of anonymized tax administrative data from the 2012-2015 tax years to examine the effect of the Incentive on youth employment. We match firms...
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