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In this study, we explore the changing employment structure in the Russian economy since 2000. Does it change through a …
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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 …
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We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examine their wage distribution during 1998 - 2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at differ ent quantiles of the wage distribution taking into account...
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the share of employment accounted for by small firms has increased in the past two decades. Both of these sources rely on … a simple metric--employment. This paper asks whether changes in this metric affect the view of the role that small firms … play in the growth process. The first section of the paper maintains employment as the measure that is used to evaluate the …
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of global value chains (GVCs) on employment and wage premiums in the Indian manufacturing sector. We emphasize the GVC …'s impact on three labor market variables: (i) employment, (ii) the wage premium among skilled, unskilled, male, and female … employment and wages. We also find that these effects are more pronounced for skilled workers and that GVC participation …
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. Using longitudinal administrative data and an event-study framework, we analyze the evolution of employment and wages before … regulations on employment stability and wage growth. …
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bottom firms catching up with top firms in the Republic of Korea and the richest EU countries. Regarding employment and labor … skills, employment growth has generally been quite stagnant in all regions. Labor skills, for which we use the wage premium …. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …
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