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This work assesses the impact of the minimum wage on youth employment, unemployment and education enrolment in Spain … intervention depressed the employment levels of the affected group, raised unemployment among them and decreased the probability of …
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introduced by Alberto Abadie (2005). The re-evaluation suggests that the original results on the average employment effect in CK …
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-in-changes (CIC) estimator to re-examine the evidence of the effect of minimum wages on employment. Our study reconciles the … controversial positive average employment effect reported by the former study and the negative average employment effect reported by …
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bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the …
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We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …
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We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of … view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the …
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We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages—in the United States and other countries … consensus now exists about the overall effects on low-wage employment of an increase in the minimum wage. However, the oft …-stated assertion that this recent research fails to support the traditional view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low …
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steady increases in the effective minimum wage reduced employment among low-skilled, young and middle-aged female workers …
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employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were …
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employment, and whether they responded at the intensive margin by reducing hours of work. The law also required non-wage benefits …. The results suggest a significant reduction in employment in Agriculture from the minimum wage, an increase in wages on …
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