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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331402
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A good time for making work pay? : Taking stock of in-work benefits and related measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936137
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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632735
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A Good Time for Making Work Pay? Taking Stock of In-Work Benefits and Related Measures across the OECD
Immervoll, Herwig; Pearson, Mark - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2009
The twin problem of in-work poverty and persistent labour market difficulties of low-skilled individuals has been one of the most important drivers of tax-benefit policy reforms in OECD countries in recent years. Employment-conditional cash transfers to individuals facing particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962738
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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 04, pp. 34-35
Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor … in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu eingeführt, ohne dass es zu nennenswerten Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kam …. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Eingriffsintensität des deutschen Mindestlohns im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Mindestlohn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888429
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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331929
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Internationale Vergleiche beim Mindestlohn
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - In: ifo Dresden berichtet 21 (2014) 4, pp. 34-35
Ab dem 1.Januar 2015 soll in Deutschland ein flächendeckender Mindestlohn von 8,50 € gelten. Die Warnungen vor … in Großbritannien der Mindestlohn neu eingeführt, ohne dass es zu nennenswerten Verwerfungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt kam …. Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Eingriffsintensität des deutschen Mindestlohns im internationalen Vergleich. Ein Mindestlohn …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011733401
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Minimum wages in sub-Saharan Africa : a primer
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Stanwix, Benjamin - 2015
Although the sectors and fraction of workers covered are small given the low rates of formality and urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), as the number of covered workers grows wage regulation will become increasingly significant. We find that higher minimum wage values are associated with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307948
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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment
Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008
Do minimum wages reduce in-work-poverty and wage inequality? Or can alternative policies do better? We evaluate theses issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage dispersion at the bottom of the wage distribution. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803539
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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa
Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27
This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000–2007...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009725084