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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : there is no evidence that being strict with overtime hours and pay boosts employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L. - 2014
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage...
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Impact of privatization on employment and earnings : workers and policymakers may fear that privatization leads to job losses and wage cuts, but what's the empirical evidence?
Earle, John S. - 2014
wages. But this ignores the possibility that new owners will expand the firm's scale, with potentially positive effects on … employment, wages, and productivity. Evidence generally shows these forces to be offsetting, usually resulting in small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421952
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Workers and labour market outcomes of informal jobs in formal employment : a job-based informality for nine sub-saharan African countries
Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Besamusca, Janna; Klaveren, Maarten van - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010351587
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Employment and taxes in Latin America : an empirical study of the effects of payroll, corporate income and value-added taxes on labor outcomes
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo-González, Johanna - In: Cuadernos de economía 35 (2016), pp. 75-117
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Offshoring and labor markets
Hummels, David; Munch, Jakob Roland; Chong, Xiang - 2016
In this paper we survey the recent empirical literature on the effects of offshoring on wage, employment and displacement. We start with an overview of the measurement of offshoring, organizing our discussion around the three key elements of offshoring: that it involves intermediate inputs for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452576
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294532
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Automation and the jobs of young workers
Falcone, Guillermo; Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 31 (2022), pp. 1-31
New automation technologies affect workers in a heterogeneous manner according to their demographic characteristics, skills, and the tasks they perform. In this paper we study the effects of automation on labor market outcomes in a developing country, Chile. We focus our analysis on the...
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The effect of overtime regulations on employment : strictly controlling overtime hours and pay does not boost employment - it could even lower it
Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Sagyndykova, Galiya - 2020
Regulation of standard workweek hours and overtime hours and pay can protect workers who might otherwise be required to work more than they would like to at the going rate. By discouraging the use of overtime, such regulation can increase the standard hourly wage of some workers and encourage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252951
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The determinants of displaced workers’ wages : sorting, matching, selection, and the Hartz reforms
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273455
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Global value chains and labour markets : simultaneous analysis of wages and employment
Szymczak, Sabina; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - In: Economic systems research 34 (2022) 1, pp. 69-96
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013282641