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Wage rigidities in Colombia : measurement, causes, and policy implications
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - In: Journal of policy modeling : JPMOD ; a social science … 39 (2017) 3, pp. 547-567
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011756786
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Downward wage rigidity in Hungary
Kátay, Gábor - 2011
Following the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP), the paper presents new estimates of downward real and nominal wage rigidity for Hungary. Results suggest that nominal rigidity is more prominent in Hungary than real rigidity. When compared to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009380436
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Downward wage rigidity in Hungary
Kátay, Gábor - 2011
Following the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP), the paper presents new estimates of downward real and nominal wage rigidity for Hungary. Results suggest that nominal rigidity is more prominent in Hungary than real rigidity. When compared to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009348938
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Downward Wage Rigidity in Hungary
Kátay, Gábor - 2011
Following the approach recently developed for the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP), the paper presents new estimates of downward real and nominal wage rigidity for Hungary. Results suggest that nominal rigidity is more prominent in Hungary than real rigidity. When compared to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121445
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Minimum Wages, Labor Market Institutions, and Female Employment and Unemployment : A Cross-Country Analysis
Addison, John T. - 2010
of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. Yet another is our examination of unemployment and participation … lower participation, even if the unemployment effects are muted. Although we report some similar findings to Neumark and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138490
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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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Wage floor rigidity in industry-level agreements : evidence from France
Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan; Roux, Sébastien - 2018
This paper examines empirically the dynamics of wage floors defined in industry-level wage agreements in France. It also investigates how industry-level wage floor adjustment interacts with changes in the national minimum wage (NMW hereafter). For this, we have collected a unique dataset of...
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The asymmetric effect of wage floors : a natural experiment with a rising and falling minimum wage
Huet-Vaughn, Emiliano; Piqueras, Jon - 2023
Exploiting a unique natural experiment,we showthe asymmetric effects of a large increase and an equivalent subsequent decrease to a binding minimum wage. Wages in a leading low-wage industry increase as the minimumwage rises, but do not fall when it is lowered. This boost for low-wage workers'...
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
advantage of individual-level longitudinal data to observe the impacts of minimum wage changes on unemployment and labor force … determines unemployment and labor force participation. Specifically, the empirical strategy controls any fixed individual … increase in unemployment immediately following a minimum wage increase. In addition, it does not appear that employers are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
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