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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt II
Sell, Friedrich L.; Ruf, Ernst K. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2014
Mindestlöhne im nicht diskriminierenden Monopson auf Beschäftigung bzw. Kapitalintensität auswirken. Dabei kann der Mindestlohn in … exakte Lösung für das Monopson. In der Regel lassen sich aber die Lösungsbedingungen nur implizit und über geeignete … Kapitalintensität höher ausfällt als diejenige, die er im unreglementierten Monopson wählt. Schließlich wird in einer …
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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2012
The market forms of monopsony/oligopsony are about the only ones where the introduction of minimum wages goes along …
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Low Income Traps for Working Families.
Ingles, D - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1997
This paper examines the effective tax rates faced by low income working families. The effective tax rate (ETR) is a generic concept which encompasses both tax payable and also loss of benefits as income rises.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971310
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Improving Taxes and Transfers in Australia
Hemmings, Philip; Tuske, Annamaria - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address goals in re-distribution and social welfare, encourage employment, accommodate business-competitiveness concerns and incorporate environmental issues is difficult. In Australia,...
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Essays on Temporary Work Agencies and the Economic Analysis of Law
Westéus, Morgan - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
Paper [I] adds to the theoretical literature on the incentives of Temporary Work Agencies (TWAs). Using a principal-agent model with hidden action to model two main types of contracts between a TWA and a Client Firm (CF), the TWA is shown to potentially act against the best interest of the CF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019142
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Price effects of minimum wages: Evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2013
In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm level in order to differentiate between a...
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Informality and Productivity in Bolivia: A Gender Differentiated Empirical Analysis
Andersen, Lykke E.; Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2007
The urban labor market in Bolivia can be divided into 4 main sectors: 1) the public sector, 2) the formal private sector, 3) self-employed informals, and 4) informal workers. Although incomes are generally higher in the public sector and in the formal private sector, there is a strong preference...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021926
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Empleo para población vulnerable a través de obras públicas y lineamientos de política.
GARCIA, Ricardo ROCHA - DEPARTAMENTO NACIONAL DE PLANEACIÓN - 2011
En contravía de la visión convencional la construcción de proyectos deinfraestructura tiene una reducida capacidad de absorción de mano de obra no calificada ypor lo tanto de contribuir a reducir la pobreza, al menos con el estado de la tecnología y elmarco institucional vigentes. La oferta...
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Is Informal Sector Work an Alternative to Workfare Benefits? The Case of Pre-Program Expansion and Economic Crisis
Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514870
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THE MINIMUM WAGE IN COLOMBIA1984-2001: FAVORING THE MIDDLE CLASS WITH A BITE ON THE POOR
ARANGO, CARLOS A.; PACHÓN, ANGÉLICA - In: ENSAYOS SOBRE POLÍTICA ECONÓMICA (2007)
This paper exploits the long history of the minimum wage in Colombia in order to see whether it has im-proved the living conditions of low income families and reduced income inequality. This paper also ex-plores how the minimum wage may have distorted market outcomes in the process. We fi nd...
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