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The impact of the minimum wage on Spanish youth: Evidence from a natural experiment

Antón, José-Ignacio; Muñoz de Bustillo, Rafael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

This work assesses the impact of the minimum wage on youth employment, unemployment and education enrolment in Spain. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we take advantage of the fact that the minimum wage for people aged 16 and 17 years old, which was approximately two thirds the level...

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Can overtime premium flexibility promote employment? : firm- and worker-level evidence from a labour law reform

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums in a manner consistent with the reform, in particular those … overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …

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Economic effects of overtime premium flexibility : firm- and worker-level evidence from a law reform

Martins, Pedro S. - 2017

firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums consistently with the reform, in particular firms making … and sales following the reform. Our results also highlight the important but not exclusive role of legal restrictions on …

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Youth minimum wage reform and the labour market in New Zealand

Hyslop, Dean Robert; Stillman, Steven - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 14 (2007) 2, pp. 201-230

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Youth minimum wage reform and the labour market

Hyslop, Dean Robert (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Gregory, Terry - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Gregory, Terry - 2020

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When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard : Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply

Gregory, Terry - 2020

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Minimum Wages and Firm Dynamics : Evidence From Costa Rica's Occupation-Based System

Garita, Jonathan - 2021

This paper analyzes the impact of minimum wages on different margins of firm dynamics using Costa Rica's occupation-specific minimum wage setting. To this purpose, I assemble rich administrative data covering the universe of workers and firms in the 2006-2017 period to construct firm-level...

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Improving school-to-work transitions in New Zealand

Ivanchuk Bibbee, Alexandra I. - 2013

The NZ labour market is among the most flexible in the OECD, and outcomes for its young people have been among the best. However, labour-market opportunities are heavily determined by initial education, where New Zealand’s system is also successful and innovative in many ways. Average PISA...

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