Nach einer intensiven öffentlichen Debatte um dieFörderung des Niedriglohnsektors im Jahr 1999 hatdie Bundesregierung eine Anregung des damaligennationalen Bündnisses für Arbeit, Ausbildung undWettbewerbsfähigkeit aufgegriffen und das Sonderprogramm"CAST" (Chancen und Anreize zurAufnahme...

This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both in terms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data - the last labor force survey available - indicate that...

Worker-level panel data are used to analyse the separate employment effects of increases in the social security taxes paid by employers and increases in the minimum wage in Turkey between 2002 and 2005. Variation over time and among low-wage workers in the ratio of total labour costs to the...

The economic impact of the 2007-2009 increases in the federal minimum wage (MW) isanalyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. Store-levelbiweekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing us to precisely measurethe MW compliance cost for each...

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...

Labor market studies on the effects of minimum wages are typically confinedto the sector or worker group directly affected. We present a two-sector searchmodel in which one sector is more productive than the other one and thus,pays higher wages. In such a framework, setting a minimum wage in...

Website der deutschen Tageszeitung "Die Welt". [Redaktion EconBiz]Das kostenfreie Archiv von WELT online beinhaltet alle Artikel, die seit Mai 1995 in der Internetausgabe der WELT erschienen sind. Das kostenfreie E-Paper-Archiv enthält alle Ausgaben von Die Welt und Die Welt am Sonntag seit...

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