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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-38
, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics of … concerns have spurred serious consideration of policies to encourage job creation and higher income from work beyond the more …
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Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets
Otterby, Dawn; Crawley, Andrew; Gabe, Todd M. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-10
This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...
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Using occupations to evaluate the employment effects of the German minimum wage
Friedrich, Martin - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 240 (2020) 2/3, pp. 269-294
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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 are heterogeneous by gender. In order to disentangle the effects on women and men, we estimate a duration model with unobserved heterogeneity in which we allow gender...
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Effects of the minimum wage on child health
Wehby, George L.; Kaestner, Robert; Lyu, Wei; Dave, Dhaval - In: American Journal of Health Economics : AJHE official … 8 (2022) 3, pp. 412-448
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Compliance with legal minimum wages and overtime pay regulations in China
Ye, Linxiang; Gindling, Thomas; Li, Shi - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 16, pp. 1-35
We use a matched firm-employee data set to examine the extent of compliance with minimum wage and overtime pay regulations in Chinese formal sector firms. We find evidence that there is broad compliance with legal minimum wages in China; fewer than 3.5% of full-time workers earn less than the...
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Regional variation of the minimum wages in China
Xing, Chunbing; Xu, Jianwei - In: IZA journal of labor & development 5 (2016) 8, pp. 1-22
This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of China's minimum-wage policy and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimumwage data since the late 1990s. A large regional variation...
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Minimum wage and employment : escaping the parametric straitjacket
Cabras, Stefano; Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2017
Parametric regression models are often not flexible enough to capture the true relationships as they tend to rely on arbitrary identification assumptions. Using the UK Labor Force Survey, the authors estimate the causal effect of national minimum wage (NMW) increases on the probability of job...
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Underreporting of earnings and the minimum wage spike
Tonin, Mirco - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-18
This paper contributes to the policy debate on minimum wage by highlighting its role in enforcing compliance with fiscal rules in economies where underreporting of earnings is widespread. First, I propose a simple model exploring the interaction between the minimum wage and underreporting of...
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The impact of the minimum wage on income and employment in Mexico
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Esquivel, Gerardo; … - In: CEPAL review (2017) 122, pp. 189-216
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