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If you are so smart, why aren't you an entrepreneur?
Hartog, Joop; Praag, Mirjam van; Sluis, Justin van der - 2008
questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2 …) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability, language ability) and social ability affect earnings of … entrepreneurs and employees differently?, and (3) Does the balance in these measured ability levels affect an individual's earnings …
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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century
Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021
New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We...
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270418
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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply
Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020
We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271659
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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts
Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....
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The minimum wage in a deflationary economy : the Japanese experience, 1994 - 2003
Kanbayashi, Ryō; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two government surveys to investigate how the minimum wage has affected the wage distribution under...
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How robust are simulated employment effects of a legal minimum wage in Germany? : a comparison of different data sources and assumptions
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2009
Several empirical minimum wage studies have recently been published that simulate employment effects of a federal minimum wage in Germany. We disentangle various factors that explain the variation in previous simulation results. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and the newly...
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Employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe - 2010
In this paper employment effects of a sectoral minimum wage in the German construction sector are estimated from a single cross-sectional wage distribution using parametric and semi-parametric models. Parametric functional form assumptions seem too restrictive and lead to implausible results. We...
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Asymmetric information in a search model with social contacts
Stupnytska, Yuliia - 2015
In this paper, the search model is proposed, in which homogeneous firms are uncertain about the job seekers' number of friends, who can help them in the job search (social capital). All workers have the same productivity and differ only in the social capital. A firm offers a take-it-or-leave-it...
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