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White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA...

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The Design and Effects of Collectively Agreed Minimum Wages: Evidence from Sweden

Skedinger, Per - 2007

Minimum wages in Sweden are collectively agreed and differ by industry. Within agreements, the rates are also highly … differentiated. Minimum wages are higher in Sweden than in any of the countries with statutory rates considered in this study. This … reported results for Sweden do no support the suggestion that adverse employment effects are modest in systems with …

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Sweden: A Minimum Wage Model in Need of Modification?

Skedinger, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008

Swedish minimum wages are not regulated by law, but subject to bargaining between employers and trade unions and form part of collective agreements. This paper provides an overview of the Swedish minimum wage system, its characteristics and effects on employment and wages, and also discusses the...

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Negotiated wage increases and the labor market outcomes of low-wage workers : evidence from the Swedish public sector

Eliasson, Tove; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of a collective agreement stipulating a one shot increase in establishment-specific wage levels in a public-sector setting where wages otherwise are set according to individualized wage bargaining. The agreement stipulated that wages should increase in...

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Impact of labour market liberalisation on minimum wage effects : the case of the construction sector in a small open economy

Stricker, Luzius; Baruffini, Moreno - In: Entrepreneurial business and economics review : EBER 8 (2020) 3, pp. 155-174

Objective: The objective of this article is to estimate the impact of the application of the bilateral agreement of Free Movement of Persons between Switzerland and the EU-15 countries on the labour market outcomes in the Swiss main construction sector. The analysis happens in the context of...

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Social harmonization and labor market performance in Europe

Mirecka, Katarzyna; Styczy´nska, Izabela - 2017

The paper aims to assess the impact of selected elements of social harmonization on labor market performance in the European Union among two groups of workers - the total working population and the elderly. The aim is to examine whether upward changes in labor taxes affect employment,...

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Migration and imperfect labor markets : theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Migration and wage-setting : reassessing the labor market effects of migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2009

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...

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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition

Albert, Christoph - 2017

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...

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Losing control? : unions' representativeness, "pirate" collective agreements and wages

Lucifora, Claudio; Vigani, Daria - 2020

This paper documents the evolution of sector-level collective agreements in Italy and estimates the wage effects of the diffusion of non-representative agreements, often signed by unknown organisations i.e. pirate agreements. Using employer-employee data from Social Security Archives, we find...

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