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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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The effect of public work programme in Hungary on private sector wages
Szabó, Lajos Tamás - 2020
The public work (PW) programmes have been the major active labour market policy tools since 2011 in Hungary. Majority of the public workers were inactive before the programme. Due to this the labour supply considerably increased in those district, which got significantly more subsidy from the...
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Who are the low paid?
McGuinness, Seamus; Freebairn, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 1, pp. 17-37
This paper provides pictures of low pay adult employees in Australia in 2004 drawing on data from the HILDA survey. The low paid are disaggregated into full-time and part-time employees. Estimates from multivariate probit models reveal that low wage employees are more likely to have casual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565331
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The returns to personality traits across the wage distribution
Collischon, Matthias - 2017
This paper investigates heterogeneous wage effects of non-cognitive skills across the wage distribution. I develop a model of wage determination under uncertainty with respect to individual productivity based on three components (minimum wages, productivity premiums, bargaining premiums). Based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011701178
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Compensation of on-call and fixed-term employment : the role of uncertainty
Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - 2005
In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348354
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Inter-industry wage differences and individual heterogeneity : how competitive is wage setting in the UK?
Carruth, Alan A.; Collier, Bill; Dickerson, Andrew P. - 1999 - Draft: December 1999
There are two findings that are conspicuous in almost all studies of individual wage determination. First, standard cross-section wage equations rarely account for more than half of the total variance in earnings between individuals. Second, there are large and persistent inter-industry wage...
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Shareholders and wage determination
Ogorevc, Marko; Šlander, Sonja - 2010
Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies have shown that oftentimes, this results not from...
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Wages, Productivity and Industry Composition – agglomeration economies in Swedish regions
Klaesson, Johan; Larsson, Hanna - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2009
It is a well known fact that wages have a tendency to be higher in larger regions. The source of the regional … the fact that regions have different industrial compositions. The second part is due to the fact that average regional … productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008487210