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A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this … relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate … employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it …
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Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment … well as in new firms and those going out of business, using a count regression model applied to proportions. Employment … on youth employment without decomposing it by type of worker flow. …
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When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of … find that the minimum-wage hike raised the wages of low-wage workers, but reduced the employment of less-educated young men …
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Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren Beschäftigungseffekte des Mindestlohns durch Variation in der Betroffenheit von Betrieben. Das IAB-Betriebspanel ermöglicht uns dabei, antizipierende Lohnanpassungen und...
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Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment … well as in new firms and those going out of business, using a count regression model applied to proportions. Employment … on youth employment without decomposing it by type of worker flow. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262701
A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …
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wages and employment using data based only on the observed cross-sectional distribution of wages. They, and others who have … used this method, have generally found that the minimum wage causes substantial losses in employment. In this paper we …
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This paper investigates the effects of the age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. The … younger ones. In or- der to grasp the size of these effects, I analyze monthly flows in and out of employment using … more likely to be affected by the discontinuities. The size of the effect also varies by the sector of employment, being …
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wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland between 2004 and 2018. We estimate panel data models utilising the … had a significant positive effect on wage growth and a significant negative effect on employment growth only in regions of … constant after 2007, by 2018, the average wages in these regions would have been 3.4% lower, while employment would have been 1 …
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