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Do minimum wages affect employment? Evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia
Carpio, Ximena Del; Nguyen, Ha; Pabon, Laura; Wang, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 4 (2015) 17, pp. 1-35
This paper investigates the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing firms between … 1993 and 2006. It shows that within firms, the employment effects of minimum wage hikes is negative. It finds significant …, negative employment effects of minimum wages among small firms and for non-production, less-educated and female workers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603730
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Do minimum wages affect employment? : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Indonesia
Del Carpio, Ximena V.; Nguyen, Ha; Pabon, Laura; Wang, … - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 17, pp. 1-35
This paper investigates the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in Indonesian manufacturing firms between … 1993 and 2006. It shows that within firms, the employment effects of minimum wage hikes is negative. It finds significant …, negative employment effects of minimum wages among small firms and for non-production, less-educated and female workers. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431596
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The Covid crisis : occupational impacts in EU economies and policy suggestions
Fischer, Georg; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
This policy note examines sectoral and occupational employment impacts of the Covid-19 crisis. The crisis hit EU …-depth occupational employment patterns before and during the pandemic using detailed Labour Force Statistics, including analysis of the … differentiated impacts on women and men. The major policy challenge is to avoid lasting gaps in overall employment as economies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012792406
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The impact of a minimum wage increase on hours worked : heterogeneous effects by gender and sector
Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023
A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249071
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Does pay transparency affect the gender wage gap? : evidence from Austria
Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021
We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012642660
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Does Pay Transparency Affect the Gender Wage Gap? Evidence From Austria
Gulyas, Andreas; Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2021
We study the 2011 Austrian Pay Transparency Law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on the gender pay gap. Using an event-study design, we show that the policy had no discernible effects on male and female wages, thus leaving the gender wage gap unchanged....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013323133
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Salary History Bans : Strategic Disclosure by Job Applicants and the Gender Pay Gap
Sinha, Sourav - 2022
I study the effects of US salary history bans which restrict employers from inquiring about job applicants’ pay history during the hiring process, but allow candidates to voluntarily share information. Using a difference-in-differences design, I show that these policies narrowed the gender pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306274
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Pay Transparency, Workplace Norms, and Gender Pay Gap : Early Evidence from Germany
Seitz, Sebastian; Sinha, Sourav - 2023
We study the 2018 German Pay Transparency policy which allows employees in establishments with more than 200 workers, to ask their employers for information about the average earnings of their opposite-gender coworkers who do "equal work". Using an event study design and matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261993
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Transitional Labour Markets, from theory to policy application. Can transitional labour markets contribute to a less traditional gender division of labour ?.
Leschke, Janine; Jepsen, Maria - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2009
Much of the gender inequality in the labour market is brought about by women's dual role as worker and (potential) carer. In this regard transitional arrangements can contribute to mitigate the risks associated with parenthood and to distribute risks more equally. This paper looks at these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051731
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Minimum wage effects on job attachment : a gender perspective
García-Morán, Eva; Jiang, Ming-Jin; Rachinger, Heiko - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 83-112
We examine whether the effects of the introduction of a minimum wage on low-pay employment duration in Germany in 2015 … attachment. These gender differences in job attachment are the strongest for full-time employment. In consequence, although the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014515577