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the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …
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The paper analyses complementarities among a variety of labour market policies. It shows: (a) that a wide range of labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at...
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We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1,100 to 2,300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the...
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This paper revisits labor market effects of the minimum wage by taking advantage of a unique institutional setting and rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the methodology introduced by Neumark and Wascher, in which labor...
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We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1100 to 2300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the...
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This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South … creation. Slower creation of new jobs is, therefore, the main channel through which minimum wages affect aggregate employment …
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the reduced earnings, work hours, and wages of these displaced workers can be attributed to factors specific to pre- and … deficit of displaced workers can be attributed roughly 40 percent to reduced hourly wages and 60 percent to reduce work hours … losses and nearly 25 percent of lower long-term hourly wages. For workers displaced from employers paying top …
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Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland.Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force Survey...
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We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1100 to 2300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603742
self employment while increasing average wages in the formal and informal sectors. -- unemployment insurance ; informal …
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