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Effects of Increasing Minimum Wages on Employment and Hours: Evidence from Sweden’s Retail Sector
Skedinger, Per - 2011
This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …
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Wage compression and the gender pay gap
Kahn, Lawrence M. - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010–2012, women were close to earnings parity with men, while in others large gaps remained. Since women and men have different average levels of education and experience and commonly work in...
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The Dog That Barks Doesn't Bite: Coverage and Compliance of Sectoral Minimum Wages in Italy
Garnero, Andrea - 2017
This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance to sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that minimum wages in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653239
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The dog that barks doesn't bite: Coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy
Garnero, Andrea - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-24
This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance with sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that wage floors in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986210
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Setting the minimum wage
Boeri, Tito - 2009
The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269572
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Raising rivals' fixed (labor) costs: The Deutsche Post case
Heitzler, Sven; Wey, Christian - 2010
We analyze the bargaining problem of an incumbent firm and a union when the wage contract becomes generally binding. Our main application relates to competition among operators of mail delivery networks. We describe the Deutsche Post case which highlights the raising rivals' costs incentive and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271363
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Do reduced labor costs increase employment among minimum wage workers? Evidence from a Swedish payroll tax cut
Daunfeldt, Sven-Olov; Gidehag, Anton; Westerberg, Hans … - 2023
cost savings increased employment of minimum wage workers more than firms that received smaller labor cost savings. Our … industry prevent the employment of workers who are perceived to have low productivity. …
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Minimum wages and wage compression in Belgian industries
Vandekerckhove, Sem; Desiere, Sam; Lenaerts, Karolien - 2020
Measuring the effects minimum wages have on wage inequality and employment is complex, and troubled by endogeneity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012606461
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Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2022
This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of …, employment responses vary across recessions. In the low-inflation recession of 2009, job losses are highly persistent and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296545
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The Design and Effects of Collectively Agreed Minimum Wages: Evidence from Sweden
Skedinger, Per - 2007
reported results for Sweden do no support the suggestion that adverse employment effects are modest in systems with …
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