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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers: evidence from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2020
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, both the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have plausibly affected workers in the Ready Made Garment (RMG) sector in Bangladesh. These responses included a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an...
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Do minimum wages affect non-wage job attributes? : Evidence on fringe benefits and working conditions
Simon, Kosali Ilayperuma; Kaestner, Robert - 2003
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The effects of international scrutiny on manufacturing workers : evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Bossavie, Laurent; Cho, Yoonyoung; Heath, Rachel - 2019
After the tragic factory collapse of Rana Plaza in 2013, the direct reforms and indirect responses of retailers have both plausibly affected workers in the ready-made garment sector in Bangladesh. These reforms include a minimum wage increase, high profile but voluntary audits, and an increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167924
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Timing, togetherness and time windfalls
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2000
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Getting it right : employment subsidy or minimum wage?
Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002
In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...
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Preference for the workplace, investment in human capital, and gender
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
In this paper, we use a hypothetical choice methodology to robustly estimate preferences for workplace attributes. Undergraduate students are presented with sets of jobs that vary in their attributes (such as earnings and job hours flexibility) and asked to state their probabilistic choices. We...
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Minimum wages and the gender gap in pay : new evidence from the UK and Ireland
Bargain, Olivier; Doorley, Karina; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2018
employment, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. This study examines the change in the gender wage gap around … decomposition of the change in the gender differences in wage distributions around the date of introduction of minimum wages. We … gender gap at low wages is observed after the introduction of the minimum wage in Ireland while there is hardly any change in …
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Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?
Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2021
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Did the minimum wage reduce the gender wage gap in Germany?
Caliendo, Marco; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2021
particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …
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Understanding pay gaps
Amadxarif, Zahid; Angeli, Marilena; Haldane, Andrew G.; … - 2020
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