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Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
Even, William E. - 2018
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate...
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The Effects of Monthly Minimum Wages on the Labor Market
Yang, Zhengxiong; Liu, Mingwei; Zhang, Shiwei - 2022
We study the impact of monthly minimum wages on the labor market with a new model that is broadly applicable to countries where monthly, weekly, or daily minimum wages are established. We show that in the absence of overtime regulations, an increase in monthly minimum wages will increase working...
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The Newly Increased Minimum Wage : Congress’s Way of Robbing Peter to Pay Paul
Jyles, Ashley - 2010
The purpose of this article is to evaluate the effect of the newly increased minimum wage, as per the Fair Labor Standards Act, on the unemployment rate. While Congress executed the Act to help lower class workers, they executed it negligently in a recession that has been intense and ongoing....
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The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
Even, William E. - 2013
According to federal law in 2013, employers can take a credit of up to $5.13 for tips received by workers in satisfying the minimum wage requirement of $7.25. This study uses interstate variation in laws regarding tip credits and minimum wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating...
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The subminimum wage reform in Greece and the labour-labour substitution hypothesis
Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2018
The paper examines the effects of the age-differentiated decreases in the minimum wage which Greece implemented in 2012, and which involved the introduction of a subminimum wage as a result of the reduction of the minimum wage by 22% for workers aged 25 and above, and by 32% for those aged less...
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Der Traum vom Mindestlohn: ein Ländervergleich
Tiltag, Andreas - Institut für Arbeitsrecht und Arbeitsbeziehungen in … - 2007
Ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn erzeugt Träume. Positiv sieht er so aus: jede arbeitende Person verdient genug, um aus … einen Mindestlohn und keine hohe Arbeitslosigkeit.“ Unberücksichtigt in dieser Aussage bleibt der Einfluss anderer …). Es zeigt sich, dass ein Mindestlohn nur im Zusammenhang mit anderen Regelungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zutreffend beurteilt …
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Firm dynamics and the minimum wage: A putty-clay approach
Aaronson, Daniel; French, Eric; Sorkin, Isaac - 2013
We document two new facts about the market-level response to minimum wage hikes: firm exit and entry both rise. These results pose a puzzle: canonical models of firm dynamics predict that exit rises but that entry falls. We develop a model of firm dynamics based on putty-clay technology and show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352173
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Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
Even, William E.; Macpherson, David A. - 2018
This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984560
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Firm Dynamics and the Minimum Wage: A Putty-Clay Approach
Aaronson, Daniel; French, Eric; Sorkin, Isaac - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - 2013
We document two new facts about the market-level response to minimum wage hikes: firm exit and entry both rise. These results pose a puzzle: canonical models of firm dynamics predict that exit rises but that entry falls. We develop a model of firm dynamics based on putty-clay technology and show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739555
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The Impact of Sectoral Minimum Wage Laws on Employment, Wages and Hours of Work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - Development Policy Research Unit, School of Economics - 2012
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...
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