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When the minimum wage really bites hard : impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 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; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

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The effect of wages on job vacancy duration : evidence from a spatial discontinuity

Delaney, Judith; Papps, Kerry L. - 2024

We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the wages paid by the United Kingdom's National Health Service to examine how wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an extra 4.3% more than those who work in outer London. We use...

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Umfang und Kompensation von Überstunden: eine vergleichende Analyse für Westdeutschland und Großbritannien

Pannenberg, Markus; Wagner, Gert G. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2001

In the 1990s overtime incidence in Great Britain and West Germany is quite similar, while the average amount of hours … of overtime for full-time male workers with overtime in Great Britain is roughly twice those in Germany for all years. We … observe striking differences between the two countries with respect to overtime compensation patterns and their change over …

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Overtime Working in an Unregulated Labour Market

Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

overtime hours and average premium pay equations. Among other issues, four broad questions are of central importance. (a) What … are the impacts of straight-time pay and hours on overtime pay and hours? (b) Is premium pay positively related to the … length of weekly overtime? (c) What is the influence of collective bargaining coverage on overtime pay and hours? (d) Does …

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More Hours, More Jobs? The Employment Effects of Longer Working Hours

Andrews, Martyn J. - 2012

firms differs between firms which offer overtime and those which do not. For a panel of German plants (2001-2006), we … with theory, overtime plants showed a significant positive employment response, whilst for standard-time plants there is no …

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Cognitive Performance and Labor Market Outcomes

Lin, Dajun; Lutter, Randall; Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2016

We use information from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and supplementary data sources to examine how cognitive performance, measured at approximately the end of secondary schooling, is related to the labor market outcomes of 20 through 50 year olds. Our estimates control...

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment : County-Level Estimates for the United States

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2021

We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...

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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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