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Locked Out : Unemployment and Homelessness in the COVID Economy
Flaming, Daniel; Orlando, Anthony; Burns, Patrick; … - 2021
This report uses estimates from the Congressional Budget Office to project an unemployment scenario for the Pandemic … Recession. We go on to use detailed unemployment and homeless data from the 2008 Great Recession to estimate the linkage between … unemployment and homelessness and forecast the amount and type of pandemic-driven homelessness in Los Angeles, California and the …
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Labor policy analysis for Jobs expansion and development
Paqueo, Vicente B.; Orbeta, Aniceto C.; Lanzona, Leonardo A. - 2014 - [rev.]
investments in education and other human capital development and sustain total factor productivity gains. These objectives require …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010380426
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Minimum wages for domestic workers : impact evaluation of the Indian experience
Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra; Jacob, Arun - 2018
The paper explores the labor market effect of minimum wage legislations in the informal sector for a developing country. The paper conducts an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining...
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The heterogenous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland
Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - 2020
Since 2008, Poland has been among the EU countries that have increased their minimum wage levels the most, following period in the mid-2000s during which the country's minimum wage was barely raised. We evaluate the impact of these minimum wage hikes on employment and wage growth in Poland...
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First to $ 15: Alberta’s minimum wage policy on employment by wages, ages, and places
Fossati, Sebastian; Marchand, Joseph T. - 2022 - This version: December 23, 2022
Most minimum wage studies are identified on small, plentiful, and expected wage changes, spread out over time. A recent set of changes have instead been large, unexpected, and quick, following the "Fight for $ 15" movement. Alberta is the first state or province to have this $ 15 minimum wage,...
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Minimum wages and poverty
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L. - 1998 - (Second Revision)
The principal justification for minimum wage legislation resides in improving the economic condition of low-wage workers. Most previous analyses of the distributional effects of minimum wages have been confined to simulation exercises employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the...
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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2021
the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … minimum wage may increase unemployment. There are no discernable effects of minimum wages on the wages of workers in small …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316940
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Minimum Wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and Employment : Evidence from the Post-Welfare Reform Era
Neumark, David - 2007
We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence points to disemployment effects that are concentrated among young minority men. For young women, there is little evidence that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777467
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Effects of payroll tax cuts for young workers
Skedinger, Per - 2014
In response to high and enduring youth unemployment, large payroll tax cuts for young workers were implemented in two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010391452
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Minimum wages and teen employment: A spatial panel approach
Kalenkoski, Charlene M.; Lacombe, Donald J. - 2011
The authors employ spatial econometrics techniques and Annual Averages data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 1990-2004 to examine how changes in the minimum wage affect teen employment. Spatial econometrics techniques account for the fact that employment is correlated across states....
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