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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century

Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021

New Zealand has seen dramatic changes in minimum wage policies since 2000. The adult minimum wage has increased 75% in CPI-adjusted real terms. In addition, the youth minimum wage was abolished in two stages, resulting in a 125% increase in the real minimum wage for 16-19-year-old workers. We...

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The causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany : an overview

Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018

In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...

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Firms' margins of adjustment to wage growth: the case of Italian collective bargaining

Devicienti, Francesco; Fanfani, Bernardo - 2021

This paper studies firms' adjustment behavior to the growth in labor costs induced by Italian collective bargaining institutions. Our research design compares several firms' outcomes across collective agreements within the same sector and geographic location, exploiting discontinuities in...

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When the minimum wage really bites hard: impact on top earners and skill supply

Gregory, Terry; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2020

We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...

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Happy birthday, you're fired! : the effects of age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands

Kabátek, Jan - 2015

This paper investigates the effects of the age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. The Dutch minimum wage for workers aged 15-23 is defined as a step-wise increasing function of a worker's calendar age. At the age of 23, workers become eligible for the "adult"...

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Credible research designs for minimum wage studies

Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - 2013

We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...

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The impact of age-specific minimum wages on youth employment and education: a regression discontinuity analysis

Dayıoğlu, Meltem; Kucukbayrak, Muserref; Tumen, Semih - 2020

We exploit an age-specific minimum wage rule - which sets a lower minimum wage for workers of age 15 than that for workers of age 16 and above in Turkey - and its abolition to estimate the causal effect of a minimum wage increase on youth employment and education. Using a regression...

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Can overtime premium flexibility promote employment? : firm- and worker-level evidence from a labour law reform

Martins, Pedro S. - 2016

In 2012, in the midst of a recession, a labour law reform in Portugal allowed firms to reduce the overtime premium paid … firms using overtime in 2011 did reduce their overtime premiums in a manner consistent with the reform, in particular those … overtime usage, employment and sales following the reform. Overall, our results highlight the important but not exclusive role …

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Youth minimum wage reform and the labour market

Hyslop, Dean Robert (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Federal minimum wage hikes do reduce teenage employment : the time series effects of minimum wages in the US revisited

Bazen, Stephen; Marimoutou, Vêlayoudom - 2016

In 2002 we published a paper in which we used state space time series methods to analyse the teenage employment‐federal minimum wage relationship in the US (Bazen and Marimoutou, 2002). The study used quarterly data for the 46 year period running from 1954 to 1999. We detected a small,...

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