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Positive and Normative Effects of a Minimum Wage

Rocheteau, Guillaume - 2008

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Do labor market institutions influence suicide mortality? : an international panel data analysis

Breuer, Christian; Rottmann, Horst - 2014

1970 - 2011 and explicitly analyze the effects of unemployment and labor market institutions on suicide rates. In line with … a large body of literature our results suggest that unemployment increases suicide mortality, while real economic growth … tends to decrease suicides. The results also indicate that unemployment benefits decrease suicides of males, while …

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What are the Effects of Public Debt on Innovation and Employment Growth?

Coccia, Mario - 2015

The study here analyzes, across European countries, the relationship between labour and drivers of technological innovation, also considering the interaction of these variables with the structural indicator of the public debt. The main findings are: the fruitful effect of total public...

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The Impact of Welfare Reform on Leaver Characteristics, Employment and Recidivism : An Analysis of Maryland and Missouri

Mueser, Peter R.; Stevens, David Walter; Troske, Kenneth R. - 2021

State and federal reforms of the 1990s transformed the U.S. cash assistance program for single parents and their children. Despite an extensive literature examining these changes and their impacts, there have been few studies that consider the effects of these reforms from the perspective of the...

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Heterogeneity in the effects of uncertainty shocks on labor market dynamics and extensive vs. intensive margins of adjustment

Choi, Sangyup; Furceri, Davide; Yoo, Seung Yong - 2024

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Heterogeneity in the effects of uncertainty shocks on labor market dynamics and extensive vs. intensive margins of adjustment

Choi, Sangyup; Furceri, Davide; Yoo, Seung Yong - In: Journal of economic dynamics & control 162 (2024), pp. 1-28

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Recent Evidence on the ACA and Employment : Has the ACA Been a Job Killer? 2016 Update

Garrett, A. Bowen - 2017

This brief examines effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on labor market outcomes using data from the Current Population Survey from 2000 to 2016. Results indicate that through 2016, the ACA had little to no adverse effect on employment and usual hours worked per week. Levels of part-time...

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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?

Gana, Rajaram - 2018

I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If so, that is not a good outcome. Why should native workers lose out to immigrants? To come to terms with my worry, I began to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and...

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Employer Learning and Informative Wages

Meli, Jeffrey; Spindler, James C. - 2022

We augment the standard asymmetric learning model with costly effort. With this adjustment, wages become fully informative of employee productivity, rather than merely reflective of public signals. Further, strategies designed to mask employee quality, commonly seen in standard models, become...

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Price effects of minimum wages : evidence from the construction sector in East and West Germany

Werner, Thomas; Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2013

In this paper, the authors present a new approach to estimate the impact of a minimum wage on the labor market of the construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm level in order to differentiate between a...

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