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Recent studies of the French experience find a small, negative impact of the minimum wage on young persons′ employment … initially aimed simply to update previous work. However, the employment series for young persons has been revised in a non …
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Examines the employment effects of minimum wage regulation on Greek manufacturing for the period 1962‐87. The empirical …. Second, estimates labour demand equations for the two types of labour to derive the employment elasticities with respect to … the corresponding average wage. Finally, provides estimates on the employment effects of the minimum wage by combining the …
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. Analyses the employment effects of lowering youth minimum wages. Looks at macro and micro evidence. At the macro level, does … not find convincing evidence of negative effects of youth minimum wages on youth employment. Constructs a micro model in …. The model is estimated with data from 1984 and 1987. Finds significant minimum wage elasticities of employment and …
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The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of … to evaluate to what extent its effects on employment seem to have been comparable to those known for market economies. In … order to go further than the measure of direct effects on employment, estimates and simulates a small‐scale macro …
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employer‐employee sample. Gender is the most important variable but women, as men, can improve their relative positions by …
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Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries.
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Considers the relative effectiveness of using experimental training programmes. Uses the US experience of programme evaluation to make two main points. First, many of the key questions concerning the effects of training cannot be answered using simple estimators, even in the presence of...
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Argues that the high job mobility observed most prominently among workers in Japanese firms is consistent with the behaviour of risk‐averse individuals when neither private nor public income insurance is widely available to displaced workers. Laissez faire is suboptimal and involves higher job...
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Analyses the role of the Treuhand in promoting inward foreign direct investment, labour productivity and employment in …
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in the sphere of employment. The constitutional safeguards and the measures initiated to give effect to them are briefly …
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