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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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Enforcement of Regulation, Informal Labour, Firm Size and Firm Performance

Almeida, Rita; Carneiro, Pedro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

labour productivity. We control for different regional and firm characteristics, and we instrument enforcement with the … it is likely to contribute to an improvement in productivity. …

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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all the growth in inequality in the bottom end, is due to...

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Trade Policy and the Household Distribution of Income

Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We explore the relationship between import protection and the household distribution of income. We first develop a general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between tariffs, development level, and observed household...

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Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data

Avouyi-Dovi, Sanvi; Fougère, Denis; Gautier, Erwan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Using several unique data sets on wage agreements at both the firm- and the industry-levels in France, we examine the impact of typical European wage-setting institutions on the form and the degree of wage rigidity. We highlight different stylized facts concerning wage stickiness. First, in...

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Evidence on the impact of minimum wage laws in an informal sector: Domestic workers in South Africa

Dinkelman, Taryn; Ranchhod, Vimal - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

What happens when a previously uncovered labour market is regulated? We exploit the introduction of a minimum wage in South Africa and variation in the intensity of this law to identify increases in wages for domestic workers and find no statistically significant effects on the intensive or...

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Controversies about the Rise in American Inequality: A Survey

Dew-Becker, Ian; Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes;...

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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

We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labour markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...

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Is There a Trade-off between Unemployment and Productivity Growth?

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995

This paper shows how misleading is the facile contrast of Europe following a path of high productivity growth, high … shocks may initially create a positive trade-off between productivity and unemployment, they set in motion a dynamic path of … contributions of this paper are to show how a productivity-unemployment trade-off might emerge and how it might subsequently …

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Trade Unions, Wages and Structural Adjustment in the New German States

Burda, Michael C; Funke, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

The rapid wage increases observed in Eastern Germany over the past two years have important implications for the direction taken by structural change in this region. These implications are not solely negative, and remain controversial in the public debate. This paper discusses four aspects of a...

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