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Theory predicts that minimum wages will reduce employer-provided on-the-job training designed to improve workers … effects of minimum wages on the amount of both types of training received by young workers by exploiting cross-state variation … in minimum wage increases. The evidence provides considerable support for the hypothesis that higher minimum wages reduce …
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This paper examines the consequences of initial periods of churning,' floundering about,' or mobility' in the labor market to help assess whether faster transitions to stable employment relationships--such as those envisioned by advocates of school-to-work programs--would be likely to lead to...
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. Coupled with the fact that this training is associated with higher wages, these shifts suggest that training may have …
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Shifts in the incidence of training over the 1980s favored more-educated, more-experienced workers. These shifts, coupled with increases in returns to skill, suggest that training may have contributed to the growth of between-group wage inequality in this period. However, because i) the shifts...
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living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce …
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living wage laws and living wage campaigns. We find that living wage laws raise wages of low-wage workers but reduce …
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