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Employment and Wage Effects of a Payroll-Tax Cut-Evidence from a Regional Experiment
Korkeamäki, Ossi - 2009
In this paper we evaluate the effects of a regional experiment that reduced payroll-taxes by 3-6 percentage points for three years in Northern Finland. We match each firm in the target region with a similar firm in a comparison region and estimate the effect of the payroll-tax reduction by...
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The minimum wage and Latino workers
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2010
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic...
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The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers
Orrenius, Pia M. - 2015
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants' Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2021
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
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Reducing Hours of Work : Does Overtime Act as a Brake Upon Employment Growth? An Analysis by Gender for the Case of Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Braschi, Cristina - 2021
In recent years the question of overtime work has become increasingly relevant as part of the wider issue of the … reduction in the working day. A direct relation between policies aiming at reducing working hours, and increases in overtime … investigate this issue using microdata by the Bank of Italy. In Italy, the incidence of overtime work among male dependent workers …
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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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Employment effects of the new German minimum wage : evidence from establishment-level micro data
Bossler, Mario; Gerner, Hans-Dieter - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren Beschäftigungseffekte des Mindestlohns durch Variation in der Betroffenheit von Betrieben. Das IAB-Betriebspanel ermöglicht uns dabei, antizipierende Lohnanpassungen und...
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Estimating the Effect of Minimum Wages on Employment from the Distribution of Wages : A Critical Review
Dickens, Richard; Machin, Stephen J.; Manning, Alan - 1997
In two papers, Meyer and Wise (1983a,b) present an ingenious method for estimating the effect of minimum wage rates on wages and employment using data based only on the observed cross-sectional distribution of wages. They, and others who have used this method, have generally found that the...
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Confronting Low Pay : Minimum Wage Policy and Employment in the U.S. and France
Howell, David - 2012
Nearly one-third of all American workers are paid very low wages, the highest rate among wealthy nations. An incidence of low pay at this level has obvious implications for the current standard of living for a substantial share of American families. But of particular concern are the implications...
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Deregulating Overtime Hours Restrictions on Women and its Effects on Female Employment : Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan
Kato, Takao; Kodama, Naomi - 2018
This paper provides novel evidence on the effect of deregulating overtime hours restrictions on women by using the 1985 … working overtime exceeding two hours a day; six hours a week; and 150 hours a year. The 1985 Amendments exempted a variety of … occupations and industries from such an overtime restriction on women. Applying a difference‐in‐difference model to census data …
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