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Are the poverty effects of trade policies invisible?
Verma, Monica; Hertel, Thomas W.; Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2011
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On the measurement and use of equality weighted growth
Mongongo, Pacifique D. - In: Revista iberoamericana de estudios de desarrollo 5 (2016) 1, pp. 127-139
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Are The Poverty Effects of Trade Policies Invisible?
Verma, Monika; Hertel, Thomas W.; Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2011
poverty by 50 percent by 2015, poverty impacts of trade reforms have become central to the global development agenda. This has … relatively higher protection in agriculture, as well as heavy concentration of global poverty in rural areas where agriculture is … commodity markets, the additional price and therefore poverty impacts due to trade liberalization might well be indiscernible …
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Essays on unemployment, job search behavior and policy interventions
Pohlan, Laura - 2018
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The employment elasticity of the minimum wage : is it just politics after all?
Wursten, Jesse - 2017
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A parsimonious macroeconomic ABM for labor market regulations
Ates, Caner; Maringer, Dietmar G. - 2021
The literature on macroeconomic agent-based models (MABMs) has gained growing attention since the early 2000s. Most MABMs dealing with market regulations have been focusing on the financial market. In contrast, only a small number of MABMs investigate the effects of labor market regulations. In...
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Minimum wages in monopsonistic labor markets
Corella, Luis Felipe Munguia - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 9 (2020) 1/7, pp. 1-28
Over the last 30 years, researchers have disputed the mixed evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on teenage employment in the United States. Whenever the minimum wage has positive or no effects on employment, they appeal to monopsony models to explain their results. However, very few of...
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The pricing of job characteristics when markets do not clear : theory and policy implications
Lang, Kevin; Majumdar, Sumon - 2003
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - 2014
This paper provides a novel justification for using a minimum wage to supplement an optimal tax-and-transfer system. We demonstrate that if labor supply decisions are concentrated along the intensive margin and employment is efficiently rationed, a minimum wage can be socially beneficial by...
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Domestic labor, foreign capital and national welfare
Broll, Udo (contributor); Hansen, Sabine (contributor);  … - 2004
The competitive allocation of labor across different sectors of an economy may not be socially optimal when one sector uses foreign capital. We argue that a suitably designed government intervention is required to restrict the sectors to their optimal size and maximize national welfare. Such a...
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