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Do minimum wages stimulate productivity and growth? : minimum wage increases fail to stimulate growth and can have a negative impact on vulnerable workers during recessions
Sabia, Joseph J. - 2015
Proponents of minimum wage increases have argued that such hikes can serve as an engine of economic growth and assist low-skilled individuals during downturns in the business cycle. However, a review of the literature provides little empirical support for these claims. Minimum wage increases...
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The Impact of Growth, Labour Cost and Working Time on Employment : Lessons from the French Experience
L'Horty, Yannick; Rault, Christophe - 2021
To account for employment evolutions at the macro-economic level, we propose a modelling where employment is explained by added value, working time and real labour cost. Estimations using quarterly French macro-economic data are carried out in a multivariate framework for three sets of sectors....
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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development : evidence from the 19th century Sweden
Tyrefors, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2017 - This version: June 16, 2017
We analyze investment decisions when information is costly, with and without delegation to an agent. We use a rational-inattention model and compare it with a canonical signal-extraction model. We identify three "investment conditions". In "sour" conditions, no information is acquired and no...
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The economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet : a survey
Bertschek, Irene; Briglauer, Wolfgang; Hüschelrath, Kai; … - 2016
We provide a structured overview of the quantitative literature on the economic impacts of telecommunications networks and broadband internet. Differentiating between wireline and wireless technologies as well as broadband availability and broadband adoption, respectively, we review studies...
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Policies to support sustainable long-term growth in New Zealand
Cheung, Calista - 2013
As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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How does employment respond to minimum wage adjustment in China?
Wye, Chung-Khain; Elya Nabila Abdul Bahri - In: The economic and labour relations review : ELRR 32 (2021) 1, pp. 90-114
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Unemployment Invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the ``unemployment invariance hypothesis,'' according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous...
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Raising Greece's Potential Output Growth
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki - 2005
labour market policies; competition policy reform; the liberalisation of product markets, in particular the energy …, telecommunication and transport sectors; policies to foster entrepreneurship; and financial market reform, including the implementation … of a better corporate governance regime. A number of Annexes provide additional information on the reform of the energy …
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Frankreich: ein Vorbild für Deutschland? ; ein Vergleich wirtschaftspolitischer Strategien mit und ohne Mindestlohn
Horn, Gustav A.; Joebges, Heike; Logeay, Camille; … - 2008
als in Deutschland unterstützt. Dies wurde durch einen Mindestlohn und eine ausgeprägte allgemeine Arbeitszeitverkürzung …
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Wieder Wohlstand für alle : Politik für eine integrierte Arbeitsgesellschaft
Pfaller, Alfred - 2010
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