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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
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Staggered contracts and unemployment during recessions
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Díez-Catalán, Luis; …
This paper studies the impact of downward wage rigidity on wage and employment dynamics after the outbreak of major … experienced a substantial and highly persistent increase in the probability of non-employment, but only if they were covered by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525726
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14.64 Labor Economics and Public Policy, Spring 2006
Angrist, Joshua David - 2006
Theory and evidence concerning the functioning of the labor market. Particular emphasis on the roles played by government and institutions. Topics include minimum wages, labor market effects of social insurance and welfare programs, the collective bargaining relationship, discrimination, human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009432687
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Minimum wage increases can lead to wage reductions by imperfectly competitive firms
Clark, Ken; Kaas, Leo; Madden, Paul - 2006
firms to reduce wages (and employment). We find some empirical support for this in the Card–Krueger minimum wage data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471631
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Minimum Wages and Welfare in a Hotelling Duopsony
Kaas, Leo; Madden, Paul - 2008
Two firms choose locations (non-wage job characteristics) on the interval [0,1] prior to announcing wages at which they employ workers who are uniformly distributed; the (constant) marginal revenue products of workers may differ. Subgame perfect equilibria of the two-stage location-wage game are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471765
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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2004
The classic dual economy models of developing countries hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. They note that applying or enforcing minimum wage laws in only one sector of the economy will create wage differentials which will not be eroded with labor...
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Darbo užmokesčio ir darbo našumo lyginamoji analizė Lietuvoje ir kitose ES šalyse
Bartelienė, Neringa - 2010
Magistro darbe yra formuluojama problema dėl skirtingos Lietuvos ir kitų ES šalių darbo užmokesčio ir darbo našumo kaitos. Pateikiama išanalizuota ir susisteminta įvairių Lietuvos ir užsienio autorių literatūra apie darbo užmokesčio funkcijas, struktūrą, darbo užmokesčio dydį...
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Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain: evidence from the metal working industry
Adamopoulou, Effrosyni; Villanueva López, Ernesto - 2020
En varios países de la OCDE, las asociaciones empresariales y las organizaciones sindicales fijan tarifas salariales mínimas de obligado cumplimiento para todos los empleadores en la industria. Una hipótesis considera que la totalidad de los salarios en estas industrias solo cambia cuando se...
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Sectoral collective agreements: remuneration straitjackets for German workplaces?
Allen, Matthew; Tuselmann, Heinz; El-Said, Hamed; … - 2007
of the employment relations literature, but also in terms of economic output. The research is also limited by an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009455044
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The bargaining system and performance: a comparison of 18 OECD countries
Traxler, F.; Kittel, B.E.A. - 2000
Theoretical reasoning disagrees about what type of bargaining system performs best. We have tested the explanatory power of three competing hypotheses: neoliberalism, coporatism and the hump-shape hypothesis. All of these hypotheses lack empirical support due to two main shortcomings. First,...
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