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Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020
The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208867
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The employment effects of collective bargaining
Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020
This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609091
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Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020
The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615397
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On the Peculiar Relevance of a Fundamental Dilemma of Minimum-Wage Regulation in Post-Socialism - Apropos of an International Investigation
Gábor, István R. - 2010
bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494700
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281026
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Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century
Maré, David C.; Hyslop, Dean - 2021
to adverse employment effects, we expect there are downside risks for youth and low skilled workers' employment. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597448
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On the peculiar relevance of a fundamental dilemma of minimum-wage regulation in post-socialism : apropos of an international investigation
István, Gábor R. - 2010
bottom of earnings distribution, it may have the side-effect of worsening their employment prospects. A demand …-and-supply interpretation of data on the relative employment rate and earnings position of the least educated in the EU27 suggests that the … ; employment ; earnings dispersion ; demand and supply of labour ; wage and employment discrimination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696807
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Unemployment invariance
Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002
This paper provides a critique of the "unemployment invariance hypothesis", according to which the behavior of the labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and the labor force. Using Solow growth and endogenous growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011412072
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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment Dynamics
Meer, Jonathan - 2014
Despite the voluminous literature on minimum wages, there is little consensus on the mechanisms by which employment … might be affected. Using administrative data in a state-year panel, we evaluate employment dynamics directly. We find that … although the minimum wage does not appear to have strong short-run effects on the level of total employment, it significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013065900
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Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country
Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020
The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824668