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Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions

Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; … - 2022

This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage dynamics and employment flows after the outbreak of …, employment responses vary across recessions. In the low-inflation recession of 2009, job losses are highly persistent and …

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Setting the minimum wage

Boeri, Tito - 2009

The process leading to the setting of the minimum wage so far has been fairly overlooked by economists. This paper suggests that this is a serious limitation as the setting regime contributes to explain cross-country variation in the fine-tuning of the minimum wage, hence in the way in which the...

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Setting the Minimum Wage

Boeri, Tito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

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The Dog That Barks Doesn't Bite: Coverage and Compliance of Sectoral Minimum Wages in Italy

Garnero, Andrea - 2017

This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance to sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that minimum wages in Italy are relatively high both in absolute terms and relative to the median wage. However, non-compliance rates are not...

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Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas

Winters, John V. - 2022

This study estimates effects of minimum wages on individual restaurant employment using the 2005-2019 Current … decrease restaurant employment for teens and increase restaurant employment for these adults, suggesting that minimum wages … for minimum wages on teen restaurant employment in non-metropolitan areas is not statistically significant. …

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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004

This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...

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Fiscal effects of minimum wages: an analysis for Germany

Bauer, Thomas K.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra; … - 2008

analyzes the potential employment and fiscal effects of such a policy. Based on estimated labor demand elasticities obtained … associated with significant employment losses that are concentrated among marginal and low- and semi-skilled full-time workers …

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Minimum wages in Kenya

Andalón, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - 2008

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage … points and an increase of between 2.7-5.9 points in the share of self-employment. …

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The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State: An Appraisal

Jimeno, Juan F.; Felgueroso, Florentino; Dolado, Juan José - 2000

, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim …

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