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This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in … urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … more than her husband - strengthens the income effect of husbands' wages. The labor supply effect of husbands' wages is …
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This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …
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preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and … activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … significantly larger if the wage shock is asymmetric across partners, not symmetric. Aggregating preferences and wages by gender and …
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detailed survey data (German Socio-Economic Panel), we assess changes in the distributions of hourly wages, contractual and … employees in a geographical region with wages below the minimum wage prior to the reform. We document the reform's positive …
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The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...
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results show that the minimum wage crowded out hourly wages below the minimum threshold, benefitted monthly wages in the lower …
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should be higher, about 2.2. Together with prior estimates of the quit elasticity these results imply that wages are 72 …
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heterogeneous impacts of recent labour demand shifts on occupational wages and employment, highlighting the role of cross …
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This study examines the correlation between childhood poverty and its influence on adulthood wage distribution, where childhood poverty refers to experience of poverty or poor family background during one's childhood. With the data from Korean Labor Income Panel Study, KLIPS, quantile regression...
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subminimum wages to newly hired workers under the age of 25. This quasi-experiment enables us to compare wages for new hires in … the standard minimum wages for subsequent hires. …
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