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per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …
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Exploiting minimum-wage variation within multi-state commuting zones, we document a negative relationship between minimum wages and firm variety in the U.S. restaurant and retail-trade industries. To explain this finding, we construct a heterogeneous-firm model with a monopsonistic labor market...
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This paper sets up a two-country model of offshoring with monopolistically competitive product and monopsonistically competitive labour markets. In our model, an incentive for offshoring exists even between symmetric countries, because shifting part of the production abroad reduces local labour...
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There has been a long discussion about the employment impact of minimum wages and this discussion has recently been … any direction. As an alternative, a Post Keynesian twosector model including an employment market is presented here. Its … most likely prediction of a negligible employment effect and a sectoral shift is tested against the German case of an …
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This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …
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This paper analyzes the spillover effects of the first sectoral minimum wage in Germany. Using a triple differences estimation, the study examines the impact of public discussion and announcement of the minimum wage on workers and industries outside the minimum wage sector. The results show that...
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industries outside the minimum wage sectors if the typical employment relationship in the minimum wage sector is comparable to …
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