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The consumption response to minimum wages : evidence from Chinese households
Dautovic, Ernest; Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi - 2017
increases concentrated in health care and education, whereas a negative employment effect of higher minimum wage cannot be …
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Consumption response to minimum wages : evidence from Chinese households
Dautovic, Ernest; Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi - 2019
The paper evaluates the impact of the Chinese minimum wage policy on consumption of low-wage households for the period 2002-2009. Using a representative household panel, we find that the consumption response to minimum wage income shock is increasing in the minimum wage share of household income...
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Minimum wages and employment in China
Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - 2013
and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225768
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The surprisingly swift decline of U.S. manufacturing employment
Pierce, Justin R.; Schott, Peter K. - 2014
This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …
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Minimum wages and employment in China
Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
-dataset from 16 representative provinces as a merged county-level panel to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage changes …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes led to significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
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Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers : evidence based on CHNS
Sun, Wenkai; Wang, Xianghong; Zhang, Xiaoxi - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 19, pp. 1-22
This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers … economic factors, and fixed effects of province and year. We find some evidence of minimum wage impacts on wages and employment … negative employment effect only for workers in private and individual enterprises. While minimum wage shortens the average …
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Minimum Wages and Employment in China
Fang, Tony - 2013
and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071416
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The impact of minimum wages on wages, wage spillovers, and employment in China: evidence from longitudinal individual-level data
Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl - 2020
China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316216
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Minimum wage and firm employment : evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - 2014
This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage … or large profit margin increase employment, while those with low wages or small profit margin downsize. The increase in … the monopsony rent of firms.Our results provide evidence for the theoretical predictions of the positive minimum wage-employment …
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How does the minimum wage affect firm investments in fixed and human capital? : evidence from China
Haepp, Tobias; Lin, Carl - 2016
This paper empirically analyzes the impact of Chinese minimum wage regulations on the firm decision to invest in physical and human capital. We exploit the geographical and inter-temporal variations of county-level minimum wages in a panel data set of all state-owned and all above-scale...
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