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The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation : Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870388
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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Discouraging Workers : Estimating the Impacts of Macroeconomic Shocks on the Search Intensity of the Unemployed
DeLoach, Stephen B.; Kurt, Mark R. - 2011
or not to search for employment, creating more discouraged workers. Since 2003, there have been a number of large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014178012
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The effects of paid family leave in California on labor market outcomes
Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2014
effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398868
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159948
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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2006
Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China's transition - both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733553
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Wind of change? : cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2021 - This version: May 2021
Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? And to what extent can exposure to a different cultural group in adulthood shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of the German reunification. A...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012516998
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Wind of change? : cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2020
Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? To what extent might the culture of her present social environment shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292062
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Varying youth cohort effects on regional labour market outcomes in Germany
Graaff, Thomas de; Ozgen, Ceren; Roth, Duncan - 2018
We assess how changes in youth cohort sizes effect employment rates in German labour market regions. Replicating the … conventional approach, we estimate that a percentage increase in the youth share reduces regional employment rates by -0.2%. We … pressure on urban regional employment rates as a result of the projected decrease in the size of the German youth share. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947720
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Job Creation, Job Destruction and Employment Growth in Transition Countries in the 90's
Konings, Jozef - 2021
excess job reallocation rate is positively correlated with the net employment growth rate at the sector and regional level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321042