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When Ecuador raised its monthly Unified Minimum Wage from $170 to $200 in 2008, it affected 35 percent of all private sector workers. We use this unexpected minimum wage hike under former president Rafael Correa to assess the labor market impacts of the minimum wage. We use an administrative...
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affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that … increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled low-wage workers, and increases the …
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I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …
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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 … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job …
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employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …
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We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of … find that the minimum-wage hike raised the wages of low-wage workers, but reduced the employment of less-educated young men …
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as employment and working hours, earnings and wage inequality, dependent and self-employment, as well as reservation … following conclusions can be drawn: while hourly wages increased for low-wage earners, some small negative employment effects …
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Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren Beschäftigungseffekte des Mindestlohns durch Variation in der Betroffenheit von Betrieben. Das IAB-Betriebspanel ermöglicht uns dabei, antizipierende Lohnanpassungen und...
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Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …
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