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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 …/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531867
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers
Averett, Susan L. - 2016
This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a …/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more … likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012983035
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Pichler, Stefan - 2016
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012993955
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Labor Market Effects of US Sick Pay Mandates
Pichler, Stefan; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2021
This paper exploits temporal and spatial variation in the implementation of US sick pay mandates to assess their labor market consequences. We use the Synthetic Control Group Method (SCGM) and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) to estimate the causal effect of mandated sick...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013247841
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COVID-19 and implications for automation
Chernoff, Alex; Warman, Casey - 2021 - Last updated: May 31, 2021
COVID-19 may accelerate the automation of jobs as employers invest in technology to safeguard against pandemics. We identify occupations that have high automation potential and also exhibit a high risk of viral infection. We examine regional variation in terms of which U.S. local labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012522866
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Who benefits from the minimum wage - natives or migrants? : there is no evidence that increases in the minimum wage have hurt immigrants
Zavodny, Madeline - 2014
According to economic theory, a minimum wage reduces the number of low-wage jobs and increases the number of available workers, allowing greater hiring selectivity. More competition for a smaller number of low-wage jobs will disadvantage immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421987
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The evolution of technological substitution in low-wage labor markets
Aaronson, Daniel; Phelan, Brian J. - 2020
This paper uses minimum wage hikes to evaluate the susceptibility of low-wage employment to technological substitution. We find that automation is accelerating and supplanting a broader set of low-wage routine jobs in the decade since the Financial Crisis. Simultaneously, low-wage interpersonal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251904
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Minimum Wage in the Time of Pandemic
Georgiadis, Andreas; Franco Gavonel, Maria - 2023
We investigate impacts of COVID-19 on a low wage essential sector, adult care homes in England, where one in four deaths due to COVID-19 occurred, and whether the minimum wage moderates these impacts. We identify effects of COVID-19 and the minimum wage on home outcomes implementing a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344429
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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011557797
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Sick pay reforms and health status in a unionised labour market
Goerke, Laszlo - 2016
We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that … reduces labour supply sufficiently. Better employee health tends to foster wage demands. If the union determines both wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561099