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Minimum wage policy and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gindling, Thomas; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023

In this chapter reviews the literature and inform policy debates about the effects of minimum wages (MW) on income …

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The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous

Böhm, Michael; Etheridge, Ben; Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor - 2024

heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages and employment in Germany. We validate the estimated elasticities with …

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Twenty-five years of income inequality in Britain : the role of wages, household earnings and redistribution

Cribb, Jonathan; Joyce, Robert; Wernham, Thomas - 2022

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the middle 90% of the income distribution, within which the gap between top and bottom in 2019-20 was essentially the same as a quarter-century earlier. We show that this apparent...

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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017

Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...

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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy

Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2020

Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...

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The distributional and employment impacts of nationwide minimum wage changes

Cribb, Jonathan; Giupponi, Giulia; Joyce, Robert; … - 2021

their nominal wages are further above it. We find substantial positive wage effects, including statistically significant … spillovers up to around the 20th percentile of wages. Overall we find small negative effects on employment which are not … households are limited by the withdrawal of means tested benefits as earnings increase. Effects of minimum wages on household …

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Monopsony power and labor income inequality in Mexico

Cazzuffi, Chiara; Pereira-López, Mariana; Rosales, Irving - 2023

associated with reductions in skilled and unskilled workers' wages. Furthermore, the elasticities are relatively similar. Second …, there is sectoral heterogeneity as, for manufacturing, unskilled workers' wages decrease more, while skilled workers do not … wages is null, and this is consistent with a higher level of bargaining power. Even though the effects of labor market …

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The gap that survived the transition : the gender wage gap over three decades in Estonia

Meriküll, Jaanika; Tverdostup, Maryna - 2021

is that the decline in the gap is related to the overall decline in wage inequality, the rise in minimum wages, and more …

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Returns to skills or returns to tasks? : a comment on Hanushek et al. (2015)

Christl, Michael; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2017

We comment on the work of Hanushek et al. (2015) and show that returns to skills are very heterogeneous and depend crucially on the tasks performed in the workplace, in line with the critique by Acemoglu and Autor (2011). Depending on the type of tasks performed at work, as well as on...

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Hot wages : how do heat waves change the earnings distribution?

Valenti, Giulia; Vona, Francesco - 2024

Europe (SHARE) and daily climate data from the E-OBS dataset, we analyze the effect on wages and occupational transition. By …

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