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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring … wages, nor are they effectively enforced. During the recent slowdown, average wages adjusted rapidly and employment was soon …
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional … answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired … firming in recessions, while leaving hiring in booms unchanged. Thereby insider power reduces average employment. …
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will employment be affected? In addressing this question, we focus on the role of on-the-job training. We show that an … insider wage hike reduces recession-time employment but, in the presence of on-the-job training, increases boom …-time employment. Thus on-the-job training can make insider wage hikes less detrimental to average employment (over booms and …
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sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse … employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a … decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment. …
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We examine whether the effects of the introduction of a minimum wage on low-pay employment duration in Germany in 2015 … attachment. These gender differences in job attachment are the strongest for full-time employment. In consequence, although the …
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This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … employment. These decisions are strongly interrelated: Firms that increased prices relatively more often also showed a less … negative employment response. The relative importance of both adjustment margins is associated with product market competition …
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employment, wages, and hours of work. In order to assess whether the changes experienced by workers in the sectors analysed were …
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This paper examines the impact of minimum wage policies on employment, income, and working time of Chinese workers … economic factors, and fixed effects of province and year. We find some evidence of minimum wage impacts on wages and employment … negative employment effect only for workers in private and individual enterprises. While minimum wage shortens the average …
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as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and self-employment, as well as reservation … effects related to non-compliance and suitability of data sources. Two years after the minimum wage introduction, the … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
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sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse … employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a … decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005824