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Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation enforcement, temporary contracts, and changes in taxes imposed on small firms. However, improvements in the labor force’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in...
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The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …
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The extensive literature on the employment impact of minimum wages has focused heavily on industrialized nations and … estimate the employment impact in the clothing, textiles, footwear, and leather industries based on a census of all large and … medium-sized establishments. The evidence suggests that there was no negative employment impact for large establishments …
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Unlike the well-developed literature on the employment impact of the minimum wage in industrial nations, very little is … variation in the rate of increase and compare changes in employment in the clothing, textile, footwear, and leather industries … the legislation. They obtain matched difference-in-difference estimates of the employment impact using a census of all …
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The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …
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plausible explanation of the heterogeneous effects on employment across these countries. I construct a reliable indicator for … wage has adverse effects on total employment (elasticity -0.0166) in countries with strong enforcement (i.e., with costly …
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