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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011

Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment …

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Real wages over the business cycle: OECD evidence from the time and frequency domains

Messina, Julián; Strozzi, Chiara; Turunen, Jarkko - 2008

We study differences in the adjustment of aggregate real wages in the manufacturing sector over the business cycle across OECD countries, combining results from different data and dynamic methods. Summary measures of cyclicality show genuine cross-country heterogeneity even after controlling for...

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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries : Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data

Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie E. - 2004

This paper aims to identify the contribution of the business cycle and structural factors to the development of part-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two decades. Key results include that the...

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Skill-Biased Transition: The Role of Markets, Institutions, and Technological Change

Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2003

employer-employee data that spans the 16 years of the Soviet and transition periods in Russia (1985-2000), with a special …

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The Changing Demand for Skills : Evidence from the Transition

Commander, Simon; Kollo, Janos - 2004

Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...

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Employment and wage effects of privatization: evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - 2008

but offsetting in Hungary and Romania, and from small effects of all types in Russia and Ukraine. The positive employment …

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This Time It's Different? Youth Labour Markets During 'The Great Recession'

O'Higgins, Niall - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper looks at the effects of the 'Great Recession' on young people's labour market experiences in the European … recession and then seeks to provide some explanations of these applying both cross-section and time series rolling regression … negative consequences felt by young people during the recession. …

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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? Aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries

Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David; Paci, Pierella - 2011

This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...

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This time it's different? Youth labour markets during "the great recession"

O'Higgins, Niall - 2012

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Employment Opportunities and High School Completion during the COVID-19 Recession

Ahn, Kunwon; Lee, Jun Yeong; Winters, John V. - 2020

pandemic recession encouraged more young people to complete high school. The pandemic created extensive problems in education …

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