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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1998 - (Second Revision)
employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …
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Minimum Wages and Poverty
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1999
poverty. In contrast, the authors of this paper adopt a more flexible "reduced-form" approach that links increases in both … federal and state minima to contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, they find indications of a … poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages among teenagers and older junior high school dropouts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204320
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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T. - 1998
employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428180
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Job search methods and outcomes
Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 1998
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000997964
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Job security and employment : a comparative analysis
Addison, John T.; Bjorksten, Nils - In: Labor markets and social security : wage costs, social …, (pp. 75-85). 1998
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Unions, works councils and plant closings in Germany
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Kölling, Arnd - 2002
This paper present paper provides the first results for Germany on the impact of works councils and collective agreements on plant closings, using data from the IAB establishment panel. We find evidence of a robust positive association between works council presence and plant closures. The...
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Unions and employment growth : the one constant?
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002
Sequential analyses of the major workplace data sets available to British researchers - the Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys (WIRS/WERS) - have revealed shifts in some previously solid relationships between union presence and a variety of establishment performance indicators. So...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411177
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German works councils old and new : incidence, coverage and determinants
Addison, John T.; Bellmann, Lutz; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2002
Although works councils are a core element of the German system of industrial relations, there is little reliable information on their incidence and coverage. This paper uses data from the nationally representative IAB establishment panel to fill this gap. We examine the frequency of works...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011411321
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Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment : a cross-country analysis
Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2011
The authors investigate the employment consequences of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Their treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study. Apart from the longer time interval examined, a major departure is the authors' focus on...
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The sources of wage variation and the direction of assortative matching : evidence from a three-way high-dimensional fixed effects regression model
Torres, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro; Addison, John T.; … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 54 (2018), pp. 47-60
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