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Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment and unemployment: A cross-country analysis

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2010

This paper estimates the effect of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Our treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher's (2004) seminal cross-country study using panel methods to estimate minimum wage effects among teenagers and young adults. Apart from the longer time...

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A general model of technical change with an application to the OECD countries

Heshmati, Almas; Kumbhakar, Subal C. - 2011

In the neoclassical production functions model technical change (TC) is assumed to be exogenous and it is specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect the rate of TC. In this paper we model TC via a combination of time trend (purely...

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The responsiveness of remittances to the oil price: the case of the GCC

Naufal, George S.; Termos, Ali - 2009

price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real …

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Comparing labor supply elasticities in Europe and the US: New results

Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - 2012

We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...

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Wages and Employment Growth : Disaggregated Evidence for West Germany

Suedekum, Jens; Blien, Uwe - 2004

We address the effects of wages on employment growth on the basis of a theoretical model from which cost and demand effects can be derived. In the empirical analysis we take a highly disaggregated perspective and apply a newly developed shift-share regression technique on an exhaustive and very...

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The Rise and Fall of Swiss Unemployment: Relative Demand Shocks, Wage Rigidities, and Temporary Immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Switzerland, traditionally a ?zero unemployment? economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low skilled...

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Trade Liberalization and Labor-Demand Elasticities : Empirical Evidence from Tunisia

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - 2004

and labor-demand elasticities. This weakness of labor demand elasticity in practice is perhaps explained by the tight …

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Wage Elasticity of the Teacher Supply in Switzerland

Wolter, Stefan C.; Denzler, Stefan - 2003

In order to learn more about the wage elasticity of the teacher supply in Switzerland, this paper estimates wages for …-1999. The data allows us to estimate the wage elasticity for entry wages of upper secondary school teachers. In the cases … examined, the wage differential is highly significant and shows a wage elasticity for the teacher supply of 0.12% to 0 …

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Using Panel Data on Income Satisfaction to Estimate the Equivalence Scale Elasticity

Schwarze, Johannes - 2000

In this paper a new method to estimate the equivalence scale elasticity using individual panel data on income … respondents to be controlled. The approach gives straightforward evidence: Obviously there is an optimal elasticity at which …

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Overtime Work Dual Job Holding and Taxation

Frederiksen, Anders; Graversen, Ebbe Krogh; Smith, Nina - 2001

Traditionally, labour supply data do not include much information on hours and wages in secondary job or overtime work. In this paper, we estimate labour supply models based on survey information on hours and wages in overtime work and second job which is merged to detailed register information...

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