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Puerto Rico's minimum wage: Revisiting a price floor with bite

Omberg, Robert Tucker - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25

Revisiting research from the 1990s from Castillo-Freeman and Krueger, I use the synthetic control method of Abadie et al. to estimate the impact of the most recent increase in the federal minimum wage on employment in Puerto Rico. I estimate that the employment/population ratio of various groups...

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Activation and active labour market policies in OECD countries: Stylised facts and evidence on their effectiveness

Martin, John P. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-29

Activation policies aimed at getting working-age people off benefits and into work have become a buzzword in labour market policies. Yet they are defined and implemented differently across OECD countries, and their success rates vary too. The Great Recession has posed a severe stress test for...

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The dog that barks doesn't bite: Coverage and compliance of sectoral minimum wages in Italy

Garnero, Andrea - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 7 (2018) 3, pp. 1-24

This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance with sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that wage floors 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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Tackling disabilities in young age: Policies that work

von Simson, Kristine; Hardoy, Inés - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-27

Work impairment is an increasing concern in advanced economies, particularly among young people. Activation, rather than passively providing economic support, is often regarded as the preferred strategy for addressing this issue. However, little is known about which measures are effective for...

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How effective are hiring subsidies in reducing long-term unemployment among prime-aged jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-38

Hiring subsidies are widely used to create (stable) employment for the long-term unemployed. This paper exploits the … abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers older than 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple-difference methodology, the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job …

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Unemployment transitions and the role of minimum wage: From pre-crisis to crisis and recovery

Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-26

During the last decade, unemployment in Greece climbed up to 28%, almost quadrupling due to the economic crisis that hit Greece. In the present paper, we examine the determinants of the unemployment dynamics and the impact of the minimum wage on the probability of making a transition into and...

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Not everyone is engaged: An innovative approach to measure engagement levels on the labor market

Chartouni, Carole; Holzmann, Robert; Paez, Gustavo N. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-25

In this paper, we analyze the Individuals' level of engagement on the labor market and the engagement heterogeneity across individuals in matters of labor market outcomes and the effectiveness of policy interventions. Emerging economies with highly segmented and distorted labor markets typically...

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Recent trends in the youth labor market in Colombia: Diagnosis and policy challenges

Ham, Andrés; Maldonado, Darío; Guzmán-Gutiérrez, … - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-62

This paper characterizes the labor market of youth in Colombia from 2008 to 2017. We estimate labor market indicators for individuals aged between 14 and 28 years using microdata from Colombia's household surveys over the study period. Our estimates document the main patterns and trends in the...

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Heterogeneous effects of minimum wage on labor market outcomes: A case study from Turkey

Işık, Enes; Orhangazi, Özgür; Tekgüç, Hasan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-41

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large developing economy with one of the highest minimum wage-to-average wage ratios among OECD countries and widespread discrepancies between labor market outcomes of women and of men. We...

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The effect of trial periods in employment on firm hiring behavior

Sin, Isabelle; Chappell, Nathan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 10 (2020) 1, pp. 1-51

employer, with the aim of encouraging firms to increase hiring by reducing the associated risk. We use monthly linked employer …-employee data and exploit the staggered introduction of the policy to estimate its effect on hiring. We find that the policy had … little effect on the number of hires, the hiring of jobseekers of unknown quality, or the stability of employment. Our …

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