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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected Mena Countries: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)

Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2020

This paper considers the female labor force participation (FLFP) behavior over the past decade in five MENA countries namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries, are well documented. We conduct synthetic panel...

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On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce. Out of print. Published originally by Westview Press in 1993 under name Grossbard-Shechtman

Grossbard, Shoshana - 1993

This book presents a theory that integrates marriage markets and labor markets (Part 2). She uses data, primarily from … individual and market labor supply and marital outcomes, including bargaining power, polygamy, marriage contract, divorce and … differentials in marriage. Part 5 provides further applications to the study of cohabitation, divorce, and polygamy. Part 6 examines …

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On the Economics of Marriage - A Theory of Marriage, Labor and Divorce.

Grossbard, Shoshana - 1993

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Macroeconomic Implications of Changes in Social Security Rules

Bagis, Bilal - 2017

The Turkish social insurance system has been feverishly debated for years, particularly through its burden on the economy. The most recent reform is an attempt to neutralize the deterioration within the social security system and its effects on the economy. After the recent reform, ‘the way...

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Employment Effects of Minimum Wages in Inflexible Labor Markets

Ozturk, Orgul - 2006

This paper structurally models and estimates the employment effects of a minimum wage regulation in an inflexible labor market with fixed employment costs. When there are fixed costs associated with employment, minimum-wage regulation not only results in a reduction in employment among...

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The Role of Agriculture in the Early Phase of Industrialization: Policy implications of Japan's experience

Kasahara, Shigehisa - 1996

The paper presents a brief theoretical and historical explanation of the transformative process of the Japanese economy from a stagnant agrarian society to a modern industrial one. Specifically, it analyzes the role of agriculture in the early stage of Japan's development in the last three...

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The Effects of Number of Industrial Enterprises, Value of Input, Value of Output, And Regional Minimum Wage on Labor Demand in Indonesia : An Empirical Study on Micro Industrial Enterprises

NABABAN, TONGAM SIHOL - 2017

The purpose of this research is: (1) to identify the effects of variables of: the number of industrial enterprises, the value of input, the value of output, and the regional minimum wage on the labor demand in Indonesia, especially in micro industrial enterprises, (2) to detect the elasticities...

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The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession: A Response to Zipperer and Recapitulation of the Evidence

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2017

Clemens and Wither (2014) find that minimum wage increases contributed to employment declines among low-skilled individuals during the Great Recession. Zipperer (2016) argues that Clemens and Wither's estimates are biased. This paper assesses what underlies the difference between Zipperer's...

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Pitfalls in the Development of Falsification Tests: An Illustration from the Recent Minimum Wage Literature

Clemens, Jeffrey - 2017

This paper examines a ``falsification test'' from the recent minimum wage literature. The analysis illustrates several pitfalls associated with developing and interpreting such exercises, which are increasingly common in applied empirical work. Clemens and Wither (2014) present evidence that...

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Additional Evidence and Replication Code for Analyzing the Effects of Minimum Wage Increases Enacted During the Great Recession

Clemens, Jeffrey; Wither, Michael - 2017

In previous work (Clemens and Wither, 2014), we reported evidence that minimum wage increases contributed to declines in low-skilled individuals' employment during the Great Recession. Because this work has generated both interest and disagreement, we use the current paper to present the code...

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