Most of the workers who earn at or below the minimum wage are either less educated, young, or female in the United States. In light of this, we examine the extent to which the minimum wage influences the wage differential among workers with different observed characteristics and the wage...

Empirical evaluations of national minimum wages, such as in Germany or the UK, rely on bite measures that capture treatment variation; measured from the incidence (or intensity) of employees paid below the threshold before the minimum wage was introduced or raised. Bite-dependent estimations...

The present paper develops a mechanism of technological transformation essentially built on two premises, namely, that most technologies needed for today's poor economies to get out of backwardness are already available in advanced industrialized economies, and that there is a circularity...

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...

This case study exploits matched firm–employee Tunisian data in order to underline the role played by within-firm human capital in worker remuneration. The estimated returns to human capital in wage equations remain unchanged when the dummies representing firm heterogeneity are replaced in the...

In this case-study, we use matched worker-firm Tunisian data to elicit the roles of intra-firm human capital and modern firm features in worker remunerations. We show that the estimated return to education in wage equations is not modified when replacing in the list of regressors the firm...

The very first minimum wage in Germany was introduced in 1997 for blue-collar workers in sub-sectors of the construction industry. In the setting of a natural experiment blue-collar workers in neighboring 4-digit-industries and white-collar workers are used as control groups for...

El objetivo de la comunicación es comprobar la importancia de las becas y ayudas al estudio como un elemento determinante de la continuidad escolar de los alumnos del nivel secundario post-obligatorio en España. El diseño metodológico aplicado se basa en un análisis cuasi experimental...

We employ the original Card and Krueger (1994) data and the CIC estimator to reexamine the evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment. Our main finding is that the controversial result remains valid only for small fast-food restaurants. This finding is accompanied with a new possible...