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Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain: evidence from the metalworking industry
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Villanueva, Ernesto - 2020
In several OECD countries employer federations and unions fix skill-specific wage floors for all workers in an industry. One view of those "explicit" contracts argues that the prevailing wage structure reflects the labor market conditions back at the time when those contracts were bargained,...
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Taxation, wage bargaining, and unemployment
Mares, Isabela - 2006
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Firing costs, unions and employment
Booth, Alison L.; McCulloch, Andrew - 1996
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Coercive contract enforcement : law and the labor market in the 19th century industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh; Yuchtman, Noam - 2011
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A typology of employers’ organisations in the United Kingdom
Gooberman, Leon; Hauptmeier, Marco; Heery, Edmund - In: Economic and industrial democracy 41 (2020) 1, pp. 229-248
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Minimum wages and schooling : evidence from the UK's introduction of a national minimum wage
Rice, Patricia - 2010
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Minimum wages and firm value
Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen - 2016
How does the value of a firm change in response to a minimum wage hike? The evidence we have to date is not well-suited to answer this question, principally because events that have been studied are not completely unknown to the stock market or have uncertainty associated with them. This paper...
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Work-related training and the new national minimum wage in Britain
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2002
In this paper we use important new training and wage data from the British Household Panel Survey to estimate the impact of the national minimum wage (introduced in April 1999) on the work-related training of low-wage workers. We use two "treatment groups" for estimating the impact of the new...
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Minimum wages and the rise in solo self-employment
Ganserer, Angelika; Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2022
Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show … that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up … employment) dominates the positive substitution effect (shift towards high-skilled workers). Such situations can occur during an …
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The impact of the 1896 factory and shops act on Victorian labour markets
Seltzer, Andrew; Borland, Jeff - 2016
schedules. We use trade-level data on average wages, employment, and other outcomes to examine the effects of changes in minimum … wages. Although the minimum wages were binding, we find that the effects on employment and other outcomes were modest. We …
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