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We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of large hikes in the minimum wage. In September 2007, the Russian government raised the federal minimum wage from 1100 to 2300 Rubles and simultaneously gave the regions the...
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This paper is the first to estimate the effects of minimum wages on the unemployment of refugee immigrants. The … collectively agreed minimum wages raise both the incidence of unemployment and days in unemployment considerably for male refugees … in Sweden; different estimation methods and models yield robust elasticities in the 1.8-2.0 range. The effects for young …
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This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers within a...
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This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of major recessions over the last 30 years in Spain. Downward wage rigidity stems from collective agreements, which set province-industry-skill specific minimum wage floors for all...
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Unemployment in Europe? Concepts and Measurement in the European Community Household Panel -- Workers and Labour Market Outcomes of … and Demographic Employment Patterns -- Equilibrium Unemployment and the Duration of Unemployment Benefits -- Social …
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