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increase of the German minimum wage. Changes in the impact that workers face earning gross hourly wages below the minimum … wages and working hours for approximately 1 million jobs and nearly 70,000 companies across all industries. Using these rich …. Furthermore, convergence seems to have occurred predominantly among sectors, as their explanatory power for lower wages declined. …
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This paper analyzes the effects of hypothetical MW (HMW) increases on social and fiscal outcomes in 21 European Union (EU) countries with a statutory national MW (NMW) based on a microsimulation approach using EUROMOD. The methodological challenges related to the use of available EU household...
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This paper documents the changing structure of wages in India over the post-reform era, the roughly two-decade period … Indian state. While real wages have risen across India over the past two decades, the increase has been greater in rural …
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This paper examines how collective bargaining through unions and workplace co-determination through works councils … representative German plant data for the years 1999-2016, we document that 70% of employers pay wages below the marginal revenue … product of labour and 30% pay wages above. We further find that the prevalence of wage mark-downs is significantly smaller …
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This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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owing to the fact that it has direct implications for worker’s wages. In Korea, the minimum wage was historically decided by … the Minimum Wage Commission (MWC) annually on August 5, after reviewing workers’ living costs, comparable workers’ wages … opposed views of the minimum wage’s effects on the economy and labor markets. It is worth noting that extensive studies of the …
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Minimum wages decrease employment in competitive markets, but can increase it in monopsonistic markets so long as they …
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effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married … and cohabiting women make different economic decisions and respond differently to changes in their partners' wages. In … on fixed effects regression. The main estimation results suggest that married women work less on the labor market and …
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The conventional view is that Americans work longer hours than Germans and other Europeans but when time in household production is included, overall working time is very similar on both sides of the Atlantic. Americans spend more time on market work but German invest more in household...
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--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately … model. I document that minimum wages--together with supply and demand--play a central role in shaping the evolution of the U …
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