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Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Job Accessions and Separations from a Longitudinal Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Portugal, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

, using a Poisson regression model applied to proportions. Worker behavior is as well modeled. Employment trends for teenagers … empirical literature when analysing the overall impact of the minimum wage on youth employment without looking at its sources. …

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Wage Structure and Public Sector Employment: Sweden versus the United States 1970-2002

Domeij, David; Ljungqvist, Lars - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

private sector employment. Our analysis suggests that the dramatic decline of the skill premium in Sweden is the result of an …

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Optimal Taxation and Monopsonistic Labour Market: Does Monopsony Justify the Minimum Wage?

Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

schedule comprises employment subsidies financed by taxes on profits. In this setup, there is no room for a minimum wage. …

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Endogenous Distortions in Product and Labour Markets

Rama, Martin; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper uses the common agency approach to analyse the joint determination of product and labour market distortions in a small (developing) open economy. Capital owners and union members lobby the government on both tariffs and minimum wages, while other factors of production are not...

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The Endogenous Determination of Minimum Wage

Epstein, Gil S; Nitzan, Shmuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

In this paper we study the endogenous determination of minimum wage employing a political-economic game-theoretic approach. A major objective of the paper is to clarify the crucial role of the strength of the workers' union and of political culture on the determination of the minimum wage. In...

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Price Controls and Consumer Surplus

Bulow, Jeremy I.; Klemperer, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The condition for when a price control increases consumer welfare in perfect competition is tighter than often realised. When demand is linear, a small restriction on price only increases consumer surplus if the elasticity of demand exceeds the elasticity of supply; with log-linear or...

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Breaking Down Married Female Non-Employment in France

Laroque, Guy; Salanié, Bernard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

which refines that of Meyer and Wise. Using the French 1997 Labour Survey data, we decompose non-employment of married women … minimum wage explains close to 15% of non-employment for these women and that the disincentive effects of some welfare policy … on participation and employment. …

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Turning a Blind Eye: Costly Enforcement, Credible Commitment and Minimum Wage Laws

Basu, Arnab K; Chau, Nancy H; Kanbur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In many countries, the authorities turn a blind eye to minimum wage laws that they have themselves passed. But if they are not going to enforce a minimum wage, why have one? Or if a high minimum wage is not going to be enforced one hundred percent, why not have a lower one in the first place?...

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Minimum Wages and Employment in France and the United States

Abowd, John M; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … intertemporal changes in an individual's status vis-à-vis the real minimum wage on employment transition rates. We find that … movements in both French and American real minimum wages are associated with mild employment effects in general, and very strong …

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Dual Labour Markets, Urban Unemployment and Multicentric Cities

Smith, Tony E; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

In this paper a two-sector model of urban unemployment is developed which focuses on the formation of a secondary sector under conditions in which a demand shock in the primary sector leads to a sharp increase in unemployment. The optimal location in the secondary sector is shown to be at the...

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