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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession

Neumark, David - 2015

The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation …, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts … of recovery from the recession will be insufficient to offset the diminished labor market prospects of many workers …

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The impact of labor market regulation on employment in low-income countries : a meta-analysis

Nataraj, Shanthi; Perez-Arce, Francisco; Kumar, Krishna B. - In: Journal of economic surveys 28 (2014) 3, pp. 551-572

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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?

Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2014

We analyze the redistributive (dis)advantages of a minimum wage over income taxation in competitive labor markets. A …

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The heterogeneous regional effects of minimum wages in Poland

Albinowski, Maciej; Lewandowski, Piotr - In: Economics of transition and institutional change 30 (2022) 2, pp. 237-267

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Does measurement error explain the increase in subminimum wage payment following minimum wage increases?

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2022

In analyses of minimum wages, positive "ripple effects" and subminimum wages are difficult to distinguish from measurement error. Indeed, prior work posits that a simple, symmetric measurement process may underlie both phenomena in Current Population Survey data for the full working age...

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Optimal minimum wages

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Roth, Duncan; Seidel, Tobias - 2022

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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes

Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021

We estimate the effect of the introduction of the UK’s National Living Wage in 2016, and increases in it up to 2019, using a new empirical method. We apply a bunching approach to a setting with no geographical variation in minimum wage rates. We effectively compare employment changes in each...

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Violations of the U.S. minimum wage laws : a method of wage theft

Kim, Joy Jeounghee - In: Journal of economic issues 55 (2021) 4, pp. 977-998

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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth : the case of Italian collective bargaining

Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021

This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining … geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in contractual wages' growth as a source of variation in labor costs. Results … workers' average quality do not change in response to higher labor costs. These effects are highly heterogeneous across the …

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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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