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Why Minimum Wage Increases Are a Poor Way to Help the Working Poor

Burkhauser, Richard V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in … poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum … wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A better tool for reducing poverty, and at lower cost, is the earned …

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Employment and distribution effects of the minimum wage

Slonimczyk, Fabián; Skott, Peter - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 84 (2012) 1, pp. 245-264

This paper analyzes the effects of the minimum wage on wage inequality, relative employment and over-education. We show that over-education can be generated endogenously and that an increase in the minimum wage can raise both total and low-skill employment, and produce a fall in inequality....

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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation

Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010

Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...

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Monopsony, Efficiency Wages and Minimum Wages

FitzRoy, Felix R. - Centre for Research into Industry, Enterprise, Finance … - 1999

Monopsony models imply that wages must be raised whenever additional workers are hired, and firms have permanent vacancies at existing wages. There is no evidence for this in low-wage markets, and our case study indicates a permanent queue of applicants, so one popular explanation for the...

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Temporary Contracts, Incentives and Unemployment

Güell, Maia; Mora, Rodríguez; Vicente, José - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

Firing-cost-free temporary contracts were introduced in many European countries during the eigthies in order to fight high unemployment rates. Their rationale was to increase job creation in a context of high firing costs that were politically hard to decrease. Temporary contracts have become a...

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Welfare to Work in the United Kingdom

Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo DICE Report 1 (2003) 2, pp. 56-62

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Precarious and less well-paid? Wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across the EU countries

Silva, António Dias da; Turrini, Alessandro - Directorate-General Economic and Financial Affairs, … - 2015

This paper analyses the main features of the wage differences between permanent and fixed-term workers and what sources are driving these differences, including the role of labour market institutions. We analyse wage differences between permanent and fixed-term contracts across EU countries...

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Does the Sector Experience Affect the Pay Gap for Temporary Agency Workers?

Jahn, Elke; Pozzoli, Dario - Nationalökonomisk Institut, Institut for Økonomi - 2011

It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers have to accept high pay penalties. However, remarkably little is known about the remuneration of workers who are frequently employed in this sector or who are employed for a substantial length of time. Based on a rich administrative data set,...

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Apprentice pay in Britain, Germany and Switzerland: institutions, market forces, market power

Backes-Gellner, Uschi; Teuber, Silvia; Ryan, Paul; … - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2012

Although trainee pay is central to the economics of work-based training, institutionalists have paid it little attention, while economists typically assume that it is set by market clearing. We document large differences in the pay of metalworking apprentices in three countries: relative to the...

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The pay gap of temporary agency workers — Does the temp sector experience pay off?

Jahn, Elke J.; Pozzoli, Dario - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 48-57

It is a well-known fact that temporary agency workers accept high wage penalties compared to permanent workers. However, remarkably little is known about the wages of workers who regularly take jobs in the temp sector or who do temp work for a substantial period of time. Based on a rich...

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