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effects on employment level and composition (formal X informal) were identified for both, time-series and longitudinal data …. The results show a significant effect of minimum wage on wage distribution. Regarding employment the aggregate effects … points towards a decrease in employment level and also in the formal share of those employed. However the magnitudes are not …
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This paper studies the employment and reallocation effects of minimum wages in Germany in a search-and-matching model … with endogenous job search effort and vacancy posting, multiple employment levels, a progressive tax-transfer system, and …, hours worked and output without reducing employment. In frictional labor markets, however, reallocation takes time whenever …
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employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit … changes in employment and wage distribution. Contrary to expectations, our results show that the introduction of the minimum … increase in part-time employment, a less pronounced decline in unemployment and a greater reduction in weekly working hours …
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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter …
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-employee data for Germany that allow to take the complete employment biographies of newly hired workers into account. The results … instable employment biographies, come from unemployment or outside the labor force, or were affected by a plant closure … in startups than in incumbents. Therefore, even if startups provide employment opportunities for certain groups of …
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the risk of poverty, on employment and the impact on businesses for instance with respect to productivity, prices or … any employment effects, they were-whether positive or negative-rather small in relation to the overall number of jobs. As …
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When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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We analyse the effects of imports on employment and earnings by distinguishing between import competition in final …
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In this paper, we analyze firm demand for flexible jobs by exploiting the language used to describe work arrangements in job vacancies. We take a supervised machine learning approach to classify the work arrangements described in more than 46 million UK job vacancies. We highlight the existence...
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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