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Separating employment effects into job destruction and job creation : evidence from a large minimum wage increase in the agricultural sector using administrative tax data
Piek, Marlies; Fintel, Dieter von; Kirsten, Johann F. - 2020
This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from the destruction of existing jobs and from the slower...
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The effect of seasonal work visas on native employment : evidence from US farm work in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - In: Review of international economics 30 (2022) 5, pp. 1348-1374
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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay's sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country's slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact...
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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011924641
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The economic effects of a rapid increase in the minimum wage : evidence from South Korea experiments
Doh, Taeyoung; Kim, Kyoo Il; Kim, Sungil; Lee, Hwanoong; … - 2022
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The effects of a minimum wage on employment outcomes : an application of regression discountinuity design
Canales, Kristine Laura S. - In: The Philippine review of economics : a joint … 51 (2014) 2, pp. 97-120
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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013
found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the …
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Price effects of minimum wages : evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany
Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2013
In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the … level in order to differentiate between a competitive and a monopsonistic structured labor market. The composition of the … sector-specific labor market serves again as a basis to evaluate whether the consequences of the minimum wage can be taken as …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199010
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Behavioral effects of a federal minimum wage and income inequality in Germany : conference paper
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - 2013
(labor supply and demand, consumption) for the first time into a microsimulation framework at the household level. We use … welfare transfers and are subject to high marginal tax rates. A decline in labor demand could diminish the gains in net …
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