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have reduced employment among low-skilled population groups by just under 1.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the …
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employment among low-skilled individuals by roughly 2.5 percentage points. The effects of smaller statutory increases and … relationship between minimum wage increases and employment is quite strongly negative in states that began enacting substantial …
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employment among low-skilled individuals by just over 2 percentage points. The effects of smaller increases are more variable and … with employment among low-skilled individuals, while relatively early and large increases are strongly negatively … correlated with employment. Analysis of future data will be needed to determine whether this apparent difference between short …
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In a study of recent minimum wage changes (Clemens and Strain, forthcoming), we demonstrate how analyses of longer-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to very short-run analyses. This paper uses this novel methodology to study the effects of minimum wage...
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We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
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We investigate minimum wage spillovers by exploiting the first-time introduction of a minimum wage within a quasi-experiment in a context with an extraordinary large bite: the German roofing industry. We find positive wage spillovers for medium-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012285605
The interactions between minimum wage policy and tax evasion remain largely unknown. We study firm-level employment … legal wage. Increasing minimum wage contributes to tax rule enforcement, but this comes at the cost of negative employment …
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maintaining employment or creating employment. In terms of the instrument used, a firm can either adjust wages or adjust both … working hours and wages. We exclude the employment-creating type of work sharing programs from our discussion since it is … aimed at long-term and structural issues and not on short-run business cycles on which this study focuses. The wage-adjustment/employment …
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employment came undone; on balance, however, the recent estimates seem if anything smaller than those suggested by the earlier …
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