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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 …, negative employment effects of minimum wages among small firms and for non-production, less-educated and female workers. The … paper also finds that minimum wages are more correlated with small firms' average wages than large firms', suggesting that …

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Probing the effects of the Australian system of minimum wages on the gender wage gap

Broadway, Barbara; Wilkins, Roger - 2017

system of occupation- and industry-specific minimum wages, which cover both low-pay and high-pay segments of the labour … setting of minimum wages helps to close the gender wage gap and counteracts the undervaluation of work typically undertaken by … women. However, for less-educated women, who comprise approximately 82% of female minimum-wage employees, minimum wages …

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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia

Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

is that the decline in the gap is related to the overall decline in wage inequality, the rise in minimum wages, and more …

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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 leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...

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Life-cycle patterns in male/female differences in job search

Kunze, Astrid; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2009

We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle. Our empirical analysis exploits German register data on highly attached displaced workers. We apply duration models to analyze gender differences in job search taking into...

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The gender promotion gap : evidence from central banking

Hospido, Laura; Laeven, Luc; Lamo, Ana - 2019

We examine gender differences in career progression and promotions in central banking, a stereotypical male-dominated occupation, using confidential anonymized personnel data from the European Central Bank (ECB) during the period 2003-2017. A wage gap emerges between men and women within a few...