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The impact of minimum wage introduction on characteristics of new establishments : evidence from South Korea
Bark, Jisun; Lee, Changkeun; Park, WooRam - 2019
This paper examines whether imposing minimum wage alters the characteristics of new businesses. Applying a difference-in-differences framework to repeated cross-sectional data of new plants, we explore the impact of minimum wage introduction on characteristics of new plants in South Korea. We...
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The economic effects of a rapid increase in the minimum wage : evidence from South Korea experiments
Doh, Taeyoung; Kim, Kyoo Il; Kim, Sungil; Lee, Hwanoong; … - 2022
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Minimum wage introduction and employment : evidence from South Korea
Baek, Jisun; Park, WooRam - In: Economics letters 139 (2016), pp. 18-21
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The impact of minimum wages on employment : evidence from a lower middle-income country
Cuong Viet Nguyen - 2023
find significant effects from minimum wages on employment and monthly wages. However, we find a considerable negative …
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Minimum wage and collective bargaining shocks : a narrative database for advanced economies
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venter, Zoe - In: IZA journal of labor policy 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-18
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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Minimum wage and firm employment : evidence from China
Huang, Yi; Loungani, Prakash; Wang, Gewei - 2014
This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect firm employment in China using a unique county level minimum wage … or large profit margin increase employment, while those with low wages or small profit margin downsize. The increase in … the monopsony rent of firms.Our results provide evidence for the theoretical predictions of the positive minimum wage-employment …
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Literature review of the economic impacts of broadband
Bakiskan, Atakan; El Kaissi, Sarah - 2023
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Asymmetric information renders minimum wages less harmful
Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2009
We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information. -- minimum wages ; unemployment ; asymmetric...
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Do minimum wages stimulate productivity and growth? : minimum wage increases fail to stimulate growth and can have a negative impact on vulnerable workers during recessions
Sabia, Joseph J. - 2015
in the business cycle. Minimum wage-induced reductions in employment are found to be larger during economic recessions. …
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The turnover-reducing effects of the minimum wage may harm the economy
Geloso, Vincent - In: Economic affairs : journal of the Institute of Economic … 36 (2016) 3, pp. 318-325
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