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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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affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among … lead to higher hourly earnings among people who are employed but lower employment rates. Data from the Current Population … affected by minimum wage laws than other low-education natives, and their employment rates appear to increase when the minimum …
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affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among … lead to higher hourly earnings among people who are employed but lower employment rates. Data from the Current Population … affected by minimum wage laws than other low-education natives, and their employment rates appear to increase when the minimum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013038406
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in … adverse employment effects among adult immigrants or natives who did not complete high school. However, low-skilled immigrants …
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This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPs with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job …
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This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job …
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We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs – jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …
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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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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
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