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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied
Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2012
Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …
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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects
Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structuralapproaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods.We begin by providing the...
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Minimum wage: labour market consequences in the Czech Republic
Fialová, Kamila; Mysíková, Martina - 2009
This paper aims to quantify the impact of the minimum wage on labour market performance in the Czech Republic. Using regional data for 1995-2004, it estimates the effect of the minimum wage adjusted for regional wage differential on the regional unemployment. Consequently, using detail...
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"Minimálbér-paradoxon" - versenyzőpiacon? : Egy gondolatkísérlet tanulságai
Gábor, István R. - 2009
In the conventional textbook demand-supply model of competitive labour markets, introduction of a minimum wage above the market-clearing level must reduce employment. Empirical findings suggest, however, that this might not always be the case, which appears to be most readily explained by...
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The ambiguous effect of minimum wages on workers and total hours
Strobl, Eric (contributor); Walsh, Frank A. (contributor) - 2007
We model a standard competitve labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the change in the number of workers and hours per worker resulting from a minimum...
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The living wage : reducing inequality in the UK?
Morelli, Carlo J.; Seaman, Paul T. - 2010
The revival of support for a living wage has reopened a long-run debate over the extent to which active regulation of labour markets may be necessary to attain desired outcomes. Market failure is suggested to result in lower wages and remuneration for low skilled workers than might otherwise be...
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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
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Lost in transition? : minimum wage effects on German construction workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2012
Betriebsebene erfolgt. Dabei kommt ein einzigartiger Linked Employer-Employee Datensatz zum Einsatz. Da der Mindestlohn zunächst nur …-von-Differenzen-Ansatz genutzt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sowohl Einstellungen als auch Trennungen in Ostdeutschland durch den Mindestlohn …
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Do frictions matter in the labor market? : accessions, separations and minimum wage effects
Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - 2011
We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structural approaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wage elasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods. We begin by providing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310198
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Minimum wages and employment in China
Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the frequency and magnitude of changes in minimum wages have been substantial. This paper uses county-level minimum wage data combined with urban household survey micro-dataset from 16 representative provinces as a merged county-level...
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