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Raising Job Quality and Worker Skills in the US: Creating More Effective Education and Workforce Development Systems in States
Holzer, Harry J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …
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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Labor Market Impacts of the Recent Crisis in Middle-Income Countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2010) 11, pp. 1-4
This note presents early evidence on the labor market impacts of the recent economic crisis in 41 middle-income … countries.A broader geographic coverage is prevented by the lack of high-frequency labor market data in other middle-income … countries and in the low-income countries. Whereas the economic downturn has threatened recent progress in enhancing employment …
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J.G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 389-391
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show...
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Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment?
Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research – roughly since 2000 – to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment...
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The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011103270
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Does It Pay to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Volunteer Work and Paid Work
Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
It is widely believed that volunteering will improve workers’ job prospects. The logic is that volunteering offers opportunities to expand work-related experience, develop new skills, and build a network of professional contacts. For young people with little history of paid employment it can...
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Failing on Two Fronts: The U.S. Labor Market Since 2000
Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015
This report argues that a key driver in rising inequality and a decline in the employment to population ratio is conscious economic policy, with a particularly important and under-appreciated role for macroeconomic policy. The paper first demonstrates the remarkable “flexibility” of U.S....
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Capital Tax, Minimum Wage, and Labor Market Outcomes
Kumar, Alok - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 11 (2008) 1, pp. 133-154
Often an increase in the minimum wage is accompanied by a reduction in the capital tax. This paper analyzes the effects of interactions between the minimum wage and the capital tax in the general equilibrium framework. The analysis is conducted in an inter-temporal search model in which firms...
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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison
Ridder, Geert; den Berg, Gerard J. van - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...
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