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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval M.; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

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Does It Pay to Volunteer? The Relationship Between Volunteer Work and Paid Work

Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

It is widely believed that volunteering will improve workers’ job prospects. The logic is that volunteering offers opportunities to expand work-related experience, develop new skills, and build a network of professional contacts. For young people with little history of paid employment it can...

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Failing on Two Fronts: The U.S. Labor Market Since 2000

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2015

This report argues that a key driver in rising inequality and a decline in the employment to population ratio is conscious economic policy, with a particularly important and under-appreciated role for macroeconomic policy. The paper first demonstrates the remarkable “flexibility” of U.S....

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Striking a bargain : narrative identification of wage bargaining shocks

Budrys, Žymantas; Porqueddu, Mario; Sokol, Andrej - 2021

We quantify the effects of wage bargaining shocks on macroeconomic aggregates using a structural vector auto-regression model for Germany. We identify exogenous variation in bargaining power from episodes of minimum wage introduction and industrial disputes. This narrative information...

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Getting it right : employment subsidy or minimum wage?

Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002

In monopsony models of the labour market either a minimum wage or an employment subsidy financed by a lump sum tax on profits can achieve the efficient level of employment and output. Incorporating working conditions into a monopsony model where higher wages raise firm labour supply, but less...

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Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets

Otterby, Dawn; Crawley, Andrew; Gabe, Todd M. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-10

This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...

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Social Protection to the Informal Sector : The Role of Minimum Wage and Income Transfer Policies

Groisman, Fernando - 2018

The objective of this study is to examine the impact that changes in minimum wage and the main income transfer programs … while the mentioned income transfer program – called the Universal Child Allowance – has benefited some 40 percent of … sector. Regarding the income transfers, it was possible to confirm that it did not encourage adults in beneficiary households …

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Tax evasion, minimum wage non-compliance and informality

Basu, Arnab K.; Chau, Nancy H.; Siddique, Zahra - 2011

We study the impact of tax and minimum wage reforms on the incidence of informality. To gauge the incidence of informality, we use measures of the extent of tax evasion, the extent of minimum wage non-compliance, and the size of the informal workforce. Our approach allows us to examine (i) the...

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Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison

Ridder, Geert; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2003

In this paper we define and estimate measures of labor market frictions using data on job durations. We compare different estimation methods and different types of data. We propose and apply an unconditional inference method that can be applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require...

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