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Trade, capital mobility, and the German labour market

Pflüger, Michael - In: Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv : Zeitschrift des Instituts … 137 (2001) 3, pp. 473-500

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Trade, capital mobility and the German labour market

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

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Trade, technology and labour markets : empirical controversies in the light of the Jones Model

Pflüger, Michael - 2001

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Wage Inequality, Skills and Mastering New Technologies

Quintero-Holguin, Jose M. - 2018

In this paper I provide a new explanation for the increasing inequality between skilled and unskilled. This work introduces a problem solving based model in which agents invest in technological innovations to solve problems and sell their solutions in the market. Each agent has feasible set they...

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Minimum wages for domestic workers : impact evaluation of the Indian experience

Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra; Jacob, Arun - 2018

The paper explores the labor market effect of minimum wage legislations in the informal sector for a developing country. The paper conducts an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining...

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Offshoring tasks, yet creating jobs?

Kohler, Wilhelm; Wrona, Jens - 2011

. We develop a model of task trade that allows for equilibrium unemployment. In this model, there are two margins of …-monotonic adjustment: Early stages of offshoring always lead to higher unemployment, while later stages may entail net job creation. We … highlight this potential through numerical simulations. -- Offshoring ; Trade in Tasks ; Unemployment ; Non-monotonicity …

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Compliance with minimum wage laws in developing countries : institutional, individual, firm, and local labor market characteristics are critical for understanding non-compliance wi...

Bhorat, Haroon - 2014

The level of compliance with minimum wage laws often depends on factors specific to each labor market. In most developing countries, a substantial share of workers still earns less than the legal minimum. Enforcement has not kept up with growth in regulations to protect workers from low wages...

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The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages

Link, Sebastian - 2021

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically insignificant. In contrast, affected firms increased prices much...

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Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland

McGuinness, Seamus - 2018

On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...

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The impact of a minimum wage increase on hours worked : heterogeneous effects by gender and sector

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023

A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...

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