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employment, and whether they responded at the intensive margin by reducing hours of work. The law also required non-wage benefits ….The results suggest a significant reduction in employment in Agriculture from the minimum wage, an increase in wages on average …Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is …
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the … impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of … specifications of a difference-in-differences model to estimate the impact of multiple minimum wage laws in South Africa on …
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The informality discourse is large and vibrant, and is expanding rapidly. But there is a certain conceptual incoherence to the literature. New definitions of informality compete with old definitions leading to a plethora of alternative conceptualisations. While some individual studies may apply...
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We show how an apparently welfare improving phenomenon like an increase in the wage of the male member of a family can … activities such that the female member is involved in a community level public good. A rise in the male wage leads to adjustment … offset the positive effect of the male wage raise, and the entire family is worse off. The theoretical results are consistent …
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This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the … impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of … specifications of a difference-in-differences model to estimate the impact of multiple minimum wage laws in South Africa on …
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employment, and whether they responded at the intensive margin by reducing hours of work. The law also required non-wage benefits …. The results suggest a significant reduction in employment in Agriculture from the minimum wage, an increase in wages on …Assessments of the impact of minimum wages on labour market outcomes in Africa are relatively rare. In part this is …
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