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The optimal minimum wage with regulatory uncertainty
Bennett, John; Chioveanu, Ioana - 2015
For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to underlying supply and demand conditions, and the extent of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We...
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The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty
Bennett, John - 2015
For two different regulatory standards, we examine the optimal minimum wage in a competitive labour market when the government is uncertain about supply and demand. Solutions are related to underlying supply and demand conditions, and the extent of uncertainty and of rationing efficiency. We...
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Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Manaresi, Francesco; Rachedi, Omar - 2022
Minimum wages alter the allocation of firm-idiosyncratic risk across workers. To establish this result, we focus on Italy, and leverage employer-employee data matched to firm balance sheets and hand-collected wage floors. We find a relatively larger pass-through of firm-specific labor-demand...
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Employment expectations and uncertainties ahead of the new German minimum wage
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
. Januar 2015 ein neuer Mindestlohn eingeführt. Dieser Artikel analysiert, ob die Bekanntgabe seiner Einführung bereits die … bei betroffenen Arbeitgebern. Außerdem werden von den vom Mindestlohn betroffenen Arbeitgebern Lohnkosten häufiger als …. Januar 2015 ein neuer Mindestlohn eingeführt. Dieser Artikel analysiert, ob die Bekanntgabe seiner Einführung bereits die …
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Employment stability via annualized hours contracts?
Carstensen, Vivian - 2000
The presented paper proves that working time arrangements, which include hours flexibility and enable hours deposits, are appealing under product market uncertainty. The model integrates efficiency wage arguments into an implicit insurance-contract environment, thus extending the existing...
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Alternative Flexibilisierungsstrategien der Beschäftigung
Carstensen, Vivian - 1999
Dieser Beitrag wägt Vorteile und Nachteile verschiedener Flexibilisierungsstrategien ab, die der Stabilisierung des Beschäftigungsniveaus dienen. Insgesamt zeigt sich, daß Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung durch Arbeitszeitkonten alternativen kurzfristig ausgerichteten Anpassungsmechanismen aus...
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Beschäftigungssicherung durch Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung?
Carstensen, Vivian - 1999
Der vorliegende Beitrag begründet die Vorteilhaftigkeit von Arbeitszeitflexibilisierung bei Produktmarktunsicherheiten theoretisch über die Existenz von Arbeitszeitkonten. Das Arbeitszeitkonten Modell kombiniert dabei effizienzlohn und versicherungstheoretische Aspekte. Die Lösungen sind...
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Optimal risk taking in an uneven tournament game with risk averse players
Kräkel, Matthias - 2007
We analyze the optimal choice of risk in a two-stage tournament game between two players that have different concave utility functions. At the first stage, both players simultaneously choose risk. At the second stage, both observe overall risk and simultaneously decide on effort or investment....
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Labor market policies and European crises
Bertola, Giuseppe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-11
This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...
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Inequality, Individualized Risk, and Insecurity
Zimmer, Michael J. - 2013
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