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This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining (CB) shocks covering 26 advanced economies over the period 1970-2020. The main advantage of this dataset is the precise identification of the nature and date of major shocks, which is valuable in...
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level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … output price increases. We find higher wages but no employment effects at the level of aggregate industry×region cells. The … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …
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This paper explores two policy interventions in Zambia, a minimum wage hike in 2018 and an upward revision in the first kink in the progressive income tax schedule in 2017, to examine and compare the impact of minimum wage and tax kink changes on wages and the earnings distribution in the formal...
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at the aggregate level. Neither firm entry and exit nor other forms of employment reallocation between firms contributed …
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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This paper investigates the degree of monoposony power of German employers in different industries, using a semi-structural approach based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The empirical analysis is based on a linked employer-employee data set which allows us to control for...
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small effect on mean accepted wages but a significant negative effect on the non-employment rate. -- minimum wages …
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Betriebsebene erfolgt. Dabei kommt ein einzigartiger Linked Employer-Employee Datensatz zum Einsatz. Da der Mindestlohn zunächst nur …-von-Differenzen-Ansatz genutzt werden. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass sowohl Einstellungen als auch Trennungen in Ostdeutschland durch den Mindestlohn …
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