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Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets
Corella, Luis Felipe Munguia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/7, pp. 1-28
employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony … States under concentrated labor markets and low-mobility jobs (two variables that measure monopsony), identify heterogeneous … effects among different scenarios derived from the monopsony model, and provide a plausible explanation of the mixed results …
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500894
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
separate analyses for the USA, the UK, Germany and the Netherlands. We quantify the monopsony power due to search frictions and …
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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : insider-outsider theory revisited
Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019
Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...
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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : Insider-outsider theory revisited
Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2019
Contrary to the predictions of the insider-outsider model, we show that the large majority of outsiders in developing countries support, rather than oppose, protective labour regulations. This evidence holds across countries in different regions, across different types of protective labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129563
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Who demands labour (de)regulation in the developing world? : insider-outsider theory revisited
Ronconi, Lucas; Kanbur, Ravi; López-Cariboni, Santiago - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012197245
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Labour migration in Southeast Asia : migration policies, labour exploitation and regulation
Kaur, Amarjit - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 15 (2010) 1, pp. 6-19
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Monopsony and labour market flows and policies
Kumar, Alok - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 48 (2005) 3, pp. 463-474
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Potential effects of a statutory minimum wage on the gender pay gap : a simulation-based study for Germany
Boll, Christina; Hüning, Hendrik; Leppin, Julian Sebastian - 2015
In a simulation-based study with data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), we analyze the effects of the newly introduced statutory minimum wage of 8.50 Euro per working hour in Germany on the gender wage gap. In our first scenario where we abstain from employment effects, the pay...
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