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minimum wage can raise employment. -- Unemployment ; efficiency wage ; minimum wage law ; racial differences ; South Africa … in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income …
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in developing countries have multiple equilibria—the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
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in developing countries have multiple equilibria - the same economy can be stuck at different levels of unemployment with …-sharing among the poor is prevalent. It seems reasonable to posit that in such an economy more unemployment leads to more income … increases unemployment rates. As corollaries, we show that (1) within the same society, two different racial groups that may be …
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Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which...
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Some studies on child labor have shown that, at the level of the household, greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient may be an explicit modeling of the labor...
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market wage can cause the market wage to fall and unemployment to rise. Unemployment benefits, by countering some of the … risks of unemployment, can neutralize the inefficiencies caused by households'tendency to oversupply labor. …
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instance, cause some adults to be unemployed, and send their children to work, which in turn displaces more adult labor, and …
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Some studies on child labor have shown that greater land wealth leads to higher child labor, thereby casting doubt on the hypothesis that child labor is caused by poverty. This paper argues that the missing ingredient is an explicit modeling of the labor market. We develop a simple model which...
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