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Local labour market concentration may influence firms' employment responses to minimum wages. We evaluate this … wages. We find that, consistently with monopsony views, the negative effects of minimum wages on employment are reduced when … labour market concentration is higher. We also find positive employment effects of minimum wages, but only in some …
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Local labour market concentration may influence firms' employment responses to minimum wages. We evaluate this … wages. We find that, consistently with monopsony views, the negative effects of minimum wages on employment are reduced when … labour market concentration is higher. We also find positive employment effects of minimum wages, but only in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015154781
also find that those firms that cut overtime premiums exhibit significant relative increases in overtime usage, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701882
overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role … pay flexibility to promote employment, even during a downturn. …
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overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role … pay flexibility to promote employment, even during a downturn. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532547
overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role … pay flexibility to promote employment, even during a downturn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983015
also find that those firms that cut overtime premiums exhibit significant relative increases in overtime usage, employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012118993
Politicians can use the public sector to give jobs to cronies, at the expense of the efficiency of those organisations and general welfare. In this paper, we regress monthly hires across all firms in Portugal with some degree of public ownership on the country's 1980-2018 political cycle. We...
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Do investments in soft skills pay off in terms of student achievement? This paper evaluates a large private-sector program in this area, EPIS, based on individual and small-group sessions of mediators that seek to improve the non-cognitive skills (e.g. motivation, self-esteem, conscientiousness)...
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Non-cognitive skills programs may be an important policy option to improve the academic outcomes of adolescents. In this paper, we evaluate experimentally the EPIS program, which is based on bi-weekly individual or small-group non-cognitive mediation short meetings with low-performing students....
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