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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
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Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank. We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We propose a cross-validation based procedure for model...
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Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
To be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labor market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty. On the other hand, minimum wage increases can have a direct...
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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants’ Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
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Minimum Wages and Employment
Neumark, David; Wascher, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other countries - that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763514
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Rational Expectations and the Puzzling No-Effect of the Minimum Wage
Pinoli, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper argues that expectations are an important element that needs to be included into the analysis of the effects of the minimum wage on employment. We show in a standard matching model that the observed employment effect is higher the lower is the likelihood associated with the minimum...
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The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: The Japanese Experience, 1994-2003
Kambayashi, Ryo; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two government surveys to investigate how the minimum wage has affected the wage distribution under...
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