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Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.
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employment and wages in Brazil and Chile - discusses trends in minimum wages, unemployment and underemployment; reviews the …
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Analyses the food manufacturing sector in India, focusing on the production of bakery products, savouries and fish products in the city of Mumbai.
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little to harm their employment prospects. This is in contrast to the US and other countries where a debate over minimum wage … recession focusing on several groups in the labour market. We find a reduction in employment retention among part-time female …
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determine impacts on employment, wages, and more. …
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This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in …. Results based on data from the Current Population Survey for the years 1994?2005 do not indicate that minimum wages have … adverse employment effects among adult immigrants or natives who did not complete high school. However, low-skilled immigrants …
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This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …
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Remarks before the Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce Annual Convention, Fajardo, Puerto Rico.
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The coexistence of urban and rural poverty and migration to cities is studied in a dual economy model where the acquisition of skills is costly and involves migration to urban areas. In this model, both the distribution of innate abilities and the distribution of wealth matter for the migration...
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