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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …
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This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … employment. These decisions are strongly interrelated: Firms that increased prices relatively more often also showed a less … negative employment response. The relative importance of both adjustment margins is associated with product market competition …
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adverse employment effects, nor firm closure. Rather the margin of adjustment used to offset the sizable wage cost shock was a … wages rose in tandem with the higher adult minimum wage, but with no impact on their employment. Based on further empirical …
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policy point of view, the introduction of a uniform minimum wage may therefore lead to different employment reactions in …
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In this article, we examine structural changes in minimum wage and low wage labor following the introduction and first increase of the German minimum wage. Changes in the impact that workers face earning gross hourly wages below the minimum-wage or low-wage thresholds are identified by comparing...
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countered that those gains come at the expense of higher prices and shrinking overall employment numbers, leaving a new class of … cities like Seattle, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Economic analysis reveals that while employment losses were …
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estimate the impact of the minimum wage on the employment rate of teenagers. I estimate an elasticity of -0.44, substantially …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079872
, without reducing relative employment in low‐wage regions within the first two years …
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