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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000–2007...
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Variation in job creation and destruction across the states through boom and bust : could minimum wage matter?
Clain, Suzanne Heller - In: Eastern economic journal 41 (2015) 2, pp. 183-199
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The effects of a minimum wage on employment outcomes : an application of regression discountinuity design
Canales, Kristine Laura S. - In: The Philippine review of economics : a joint … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 97-120
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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013
found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the …
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Minimum wages and employment in China
Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - 2013
Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. This paper uses county-level minimum wage panel data and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative...
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Minimum wages and aggregate job growth : causal effect or statistical artifact?
Dube, Arindrajit - 2013
A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics...
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The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers
Averett, Susan; Smith, Julie K.; Yang Wang - 2016
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential...
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When good measurement goes wrong : new evidence that New York state's minimum wage reduced employment
Sabia, Joseph J.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Hansen, Benjamin - In: ILR review : the journal of work and policy 69 (2016) 2, pp. 312-319
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The impact of labor market regulation on employment in low-income countries : a meta-analysis
Nataraj, Shanthi; Perez-Arce, Francisco; Kumar, Krishna B. - In: Journal of economic surveys 28 (2014) 3, pp. 551-572
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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth : the case of Italian collective bargaining
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining … geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in contractual wages' growth as a source of variation in labor costs. Results … workers' average quality do not change in response to higher labor costs. These effects are highly heterogeneous across the …
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