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Monopsony power and guest worker programs
Gibbons, Eric M.; Greenman, Allie; Norlander, Peter; … - 2019
markets, based on federal merger scrutiny guidelines, and that concentration generally decreases wages. For example, moving … from a market with an HHI of zero to a market comprised of two employers lowers H-1B worker wages approximately 10 percent …, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could …
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The impact of immigration on the employment and wages of native workers
Chassamboulli, Andri; Palybos, Theodōros - In: Journal of macroeconomics 38 (2013) 1, pp. 19-34
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Natural Shocks and Migration Decisions : The Case of Kyrgyzstan
Chernina, Eugenia - 2019
Previous research has shown that the effects of natural shocks on household migration decisions may go in different directions. This paper explores the impact of natural shocks (self-reported) on the migration of members of Kyrgyz rural households. Employing a panel dataset from the Life in...
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EU enlargement and (temporary) migration : effects on labour market outcomes in Germany
Hammer, Luisa; Hertweck, Matthias S. - 2022
EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May 2011. Taking into account that not all immigrantsstay permanently and that outmigration flows are selective, this paper classifies recent EUimmigrants into “new arrivals” and...
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Thinking about minimum wage increases in Alberta : theoretically, empirically, and regionally
Marchand, Joseph T. - 2016
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Minimum wages and wage inequality in the OECD countries
Joe, Dong-Hee; Moon, Seongman - In: East Asian economic review 24 (2020) 3, pp. 253-273
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Payroll, revenue, and labor demand effects of the minimum wage
Jardim, Ekaterina; Van Inwegen, Emma - 2019
We study the impact of the minimum wage hike in Seattle from $9.47 to $13 on wagebill, labor demand, and firm revenue using administrative data from the state of Washington. We show that the minimum wage affected businesses both at the intensive and extensive margins. At the intensive margin,...
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Countering the discriminatory impact of minimum wages against disadvantaged workers : literature review and experimental design development
Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Paqueo, Vicente B. - 2017
It is a common belief that government should set legal minimum wages (LMW) to a level that would enable workers and …
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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? : a comparison of different data sources and assumptions
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009
effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …
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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
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