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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage combining administrative firm datasets. We analyze … reallocation, and short- versus long-run effects. We document higher firm productivity even net of output price increases …. Productivity gains are persistent in manufacturing and service sectors. The minimum wage also increased manufacturing productivity …
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This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes in developing countries. It finds that: (1) Labor institutions vary greatly among developing countries but less than...
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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281094
productivity. Low productivity firm's optimal choice of employment and wage will be unaffected by the introduction of the minimum … wage. High productivity firms comply so that wage and employment effects are non-negative for these firms. …
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This paper investigates whether the minimum wage leads to inefficient job rationing. By not allowing wages to clear the labor market, the minimum wage could cause workers with low reservation wages to be rationed out while equally skilled workers with higher reservation wages are employed. This...
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productivity growth-particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not among state …
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factor productivity growth–particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …
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We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350440
factor productivity growth–particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947448
factor productivity growth-particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011718640