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Minimum wage and employment: Escaping the parametric straitjacket

Cabras, Stefano; Fidrmuc, Jan; de Dios Tena Horrillo, Juan - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 11 (2017) 2017-15, pp. 1-20

Parametric regression models are often not flexible enough to capture the true relationships as they tend to rely on arbitrary identification assumptions. Using the UK Labor Force Survey, the authors estimate the causal effect of national minimum wage (NMW) increases on the probability of job...

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How does grandparent childcare affect labor supply?

Zanella, Giulio - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and...

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The price of fringe benefits when formal and informal labor markets coexist

Argente, David; García, Jorge - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-12

We use the Mexican labor market structure to price the set of fringe benefits that household heads receive when formally employed. We exploit longitudinal, nationally-representative information on household heads who are formal, informal, or switch status at least once in our data. Using monthly...

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Wage Dynamics and Bulgaria: Co-movement and Causality

Vasilev, Aleksandar; Manolova, Hristina - In: South-Eastern Europe Journal of Economics 17 (2019) 1, pp. 91-127

Motivated by recent debates on the possible role of wages as an income policy tool, in this study we examine the … dynamic inter-relationship between wages in Bulgaria, mainly in the context of its EU accession. Relative to the WDN studies … determinant of the other two wages. We demonstrate that minimum wage increases do not cause changes in average wages in either the …

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Nach dem Streik ist vor dem Streik

Keller, Berndt Karl - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 101 (2021) 10, pp. 777-780

Anfang der 2000er Jahre bildeten sich einige Berufsgewerkschaften, die das alte System der Tarifeinheit lockerten, bis das Bundesarbeitsgericht schließlich 2010 die Tarifpluralität grundsätzlich zuließ. Mit dem Tarifeinheitsgesetz von 2015 sollte die Macht kleiner Berufsgewerkschaften wieder...

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Upgrading technology in Central and Eastern European economies

Radosevic, Slavo - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

The future growth of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) depends on upgrading technology, exporting and coupling domestic technology efforts while improving their position in global value chains. Current policies in the region are not geared to these tasks, despite the availability of huge...

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The sources of wage growth in a developing country

Marinescu, Ioana; Triyana, Margaret - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 2, pp. 1-43

What are the sources of wage growth in developing countries? In the USA, general labor market experience is the key source of wage growth, with job seniority playing a smaller role. By contrast, in Indonesia, the 10-year return to seniority is 24 to 28 %, which is higher than the return to...

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Public versus private University Systems

Psacharopoulos, George - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 4, pp. 39-43

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The labor market in Poland, 2000-2021

Lewandowski, Piotr; Magda, Iga - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

In the early 2000s, Poland's unemployment rate reached 20%. That is now a distant memory, as employment has increased noticeably and the unemployment rate had dropped to 3.4% in 2021. The labor force participation of older workers increased following reforms aimed at prolonging careers. However,...

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The economic research potentials of the German Socio-Economic Panel study

Schröder, Carsten; König, Johannes; Fedorets, Alexandra; … - In: German Economic Review 21 (2020) 3, pp. 335-371

We provide a concise introduction to a household-panel data infrastructure that provides the international research community with longitudinal data of private households in Germany since 1984: the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). We demonstrate the comparative strength of the SOEP data in...

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