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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs, raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics …. These concerns have spurred serious consideration of policies to encourage job creation and higher income from work beyond …
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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-38
, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts …, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or higher-wage jobs raised concerns that the normal business cycle dynamics of … concerns have spurred serious consideration of policies to encourage job creation and higher income from work beyond the more …
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Raising job quality and worker skills in the US : creating more effective education and workforce development systems in states
Holzer, Harry J. - 2012
with education and training more clearly targeted towards firms and sectors providing good-paying jobs. This paper proposes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009546528
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369825
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238837
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The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation : Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870388
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Effects of the minimum wage on US county labor markets
Otterby, Dawn; Crawley, Andrew; Gabe, Todd M. - In: Regional science policy and practice : RSPP 16 (2024) 5, pp. 1-10
This study investigates the impacts of the minimum wage on U.S. regional labor markets. Using ten years of county-level data, we examine the relationship between the minimum wage and several key components of the labor market. Following past research, the number of people in the labor force is...
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The Effects of Minimum Wages on Wages and Employment
Kanellopoulos, Costas N - 2022
This study analyses the relationship between minimum wages, average wages and employment in the Greek private sector throughout the past decade, using published IKA data on employment and wages, as well as data on minimum statutory wages. It appears that minimum wages affect a substantial...
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Do Lower Minimum Wages for Younger Workers Raise Their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity
Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2018
We estimate the impact of youth minimum wages on youth employment by exploiting a large discontinuity in Danish minimum wage rules at age 18, using monthly payroll records for the Danish population. The hourly wage jumps up by 40 percent at the discontinuity. Employment falls by 33 percent and...
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