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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - 2021
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319381
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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market in New Zealand
Stillman, Steven - 2010
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149428
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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517238
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Minimum Wages in New Zealand : Policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16–19-year-old workers. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314250
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The causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany : an overview
Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958955
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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth : the case of Italian collective bargaining
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across collective agreements within the same sector and geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511577
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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: the case of Italian collective bargaining
Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021
This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across collective agreements within the same sector and geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588728
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The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
Agan, Amanda Y. - 2020
For released prisoners, the minimum wage and Earned Income Tax Credits (EITCs) can influence their ability to find employment and their potential wages relative to illegal sources of income, affecting the probability they return to prison. Using administrative prison release records from nearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853161
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The causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany : an overview
Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018 - This version: December 21, 2018
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961942
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Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level
Devereux, Kevin; Studnicka, Zuzanna - 2024
Minimum wages decrease employment in competitive markets, but can increase it in monopsonistic markets so long as they do not exceed the marginal product of labour. We find evidence of non-monotonicity both by market structure and minimum wage level. Minimum wage hikes initially increase hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014507670