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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in France Revisited

Benhayoun, Gilbert - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 82-85

Recent studies of the French experience find a small, negative impact of the minimum wage on young persons′ employment … initially aimed simply to update previous work. However, the employment series for young persons has been revised in a non …

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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Industrial Wages and Employment in Greece

Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vasiliki - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 86-99

Examines the employment effects of minimum wage regulation on Greek manufacturing for the period 1962‐87. The empirical …. Second, estimates labour demand equations for the two types of labour to derive the employment elasticities with respect to … the corresponding average wage. Finally, provides estimates on the employment effects of the minimum wage by combining the …

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Youth Minimum Wage Rates: The Dutch Experience

van Soest, Arthur - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 100-117

. Analyses the employment effects of lowering youth minimum wages. Looks at macro and micro evidence. At the macro level, does … not find convincing evidence of negative effects of youth minimum wages on youth employment. Constructs a micro model in …. The model is estimated with data from 1984 and 1987. Finds significant minimum wage elasticities of employment and …

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in Czechoslovakia

Girardin, Eric; Marimoutou, Velayoudom - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 118-129

The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of … to evaluate to what extent its effects on employment seem to have been comparable to those known for market economies. In … order to go further than the measure of direct effects on employment, estimates and simulates a small‐scale macro …

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The Economics of Low Pay in Britain

Sloane, P.J.; Theodossiou, I. - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 130-149

Examines the extent of low pay in Britain, first by estimating a Lorenz curve and, second, by using a logistic regression approach. Low pay is defined in terms of the first three deciles of the income distribution for all workers. The data are taken from the 1986 Social and Economic Life Survey...

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Earnings Transitions of the Low‐paid in Britain, 1976‐91: A Longitudinal Study

Gregory, Mary; Elias, Peter - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 2/3, pp. 170-188

Using a large panel of employees from the New Earnings Survey, examines the subsequent earnings transitions of those who were in the lowest quintile of the earnings distribution in 1976. Traces the quintile earnings positions in 1984 and 1991 of three age groups of 1976 – the young, the...

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Evaluations of Labour Market Policy in Sweden

Björklund, Anders - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 16-31

Outlines the current state of evaluation research in Sweden. Concludes that it is limited in scope relative to the USA despite the much larger expenditure on labour market policies in Sweden. Locates this deficiency in the differential research infrastructure of the two countries.

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Looking into the Black Box: Using Experimental Data to Find out How Training Works

Ham, John C.; LaLonde, Robert J. - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 5, pp. 32-37

Considers the relative effectiveness of using experimental training programmes. Uses the US experience of programme evaluation to make two main points. First, many of the key questions concerning the effects of training cannot be answered using simple estimators, even in the presence of...

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Job Rotation and Public Policy: Theory with Applications to Japan and the USA

Mourdoukoutas, Panos; Roy, Udayan - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 6, pp. 57-71

Argues that the high job mobility observed most prominently among workers in Japanese firms is consistent with the behaviour of risk‐averse individuals when neither private nor public income insurance is widely available to displaced workers. Laissez faire is suboptimal and involves higher job...

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The Treuhandanstalt, FDI and Employment in Germany

Balasubramanyam, V.N. - In: International Journal of Manpower 15 (1994) 6, pp. 72-84

Analyses the role of the Treuhand in promoting inward foreign direct investment, labour productivity and employment in …

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