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Designing labor market regulations in developing countries : labor market regulation should aim to improve the functioning of the labor market while protecting workers

Betcherman, Gordon - 2014

Governments regulate employment to protect workers and to improve labor market efficiency. However, employment regulations can be controversial, often complicated by opposing ideological views. Thus, it is important for policymakers in developing countries to base decisions on empirical evidence...

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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper investigates whether such considerations call into question...

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Minimum wage effects on employment and working time of Chinese workers : evidence based on CHNS

Sun, Wenkai; Wang, Xianghong; Zhang, Xiaoxi - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 19, pp. 1-22

This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers. Using data from China Health and Nutrition Survey, we focus on identifying the effects of minimum wage adjustments using a pre-specified model. We control for lagged minimum wage...

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Youth unemployment in old Europe : the polar cases of France and Germany

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2013

France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has been on continuous decline in Germany for many years,...

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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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The consequences of increased enforcement of legal minimum wages in a developing country : an evaluation of the impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica

Gindling, Thomas; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos, Juan Diego - 2014

In August 2010 the Costa Rican government implemented a comprehensive program to increase compliance with legal minimum wages, the Campaign for Minimum Wages. To evaluate the impact of the Campaign, we use a regression discontinuity approach, which compares what happened to workers who before...

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On the robustness of minimum wage effects : geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2014

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been sharply criticized for its neglect of spatial heterogeneity so, too, have the latest models been attacked for their uncritical use of state- or county-specific linear trends (and...

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2016

This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...

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The effect of minimum wages on labour market flows : evidence from Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Penninger, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - 2015

Betriebsebene erfolgt. Dabei kommt ein einzigartiger Linked Employer-Employee Datensatz zum Einsatz. Da der Mindestlohn zunächst nur … innerhalb des Bauhauptgewerbes als Kontrollgruppe dienen. Während der within-Ansatz zeigt, dass der Mindestlohn Arbeiterflüsse …

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Monopsonistic competition, low-wage labour markets, and minimum wages : an empirical analysis

Bachmann, Ronald; Frings, Hanna - 2015

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