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The impact of a minimum wage increase on hours worked : heterogeneous effects by gender and sector

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023

A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...

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Using Distribution Regression Difference-in-Differences to Evaluate the Effects of a Minimum Wage Introduction on the Distribution of Hourly Wages and Hours Worked

Biewen, Martin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Rümmele, Marian - 2022

This paper evaluates the effects of the newly introduced German minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and … Germany that includes information on hourly wages and hours worked. We provide a full distributional analysis based on …-over effects up to 20 percent above it. We show that inequality in hourly wages fell between 2014 and 2018, but that the long …

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Labour market institutions in small Pacific island countries : main guidelines for labour market reforms

Malo Ocaña, Miguel Angel - 2017

This report consists of a comprehensive overview of labour market institutions in the small Pacific island countries in order to propose recommendations to improve the performance of their labour markets. We pay particular attention to three countries: Fiji, Palau and Papua New Guinea. We focus...

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New perspectives on inequality in Latin America

Fernández, Manuel; Gabriela Serrano, Gabriela - 2022

wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the …

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The distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and long run

Hurst, Erik; Kehoe, Patrick J.; Pastorino, Elena; … - 2022

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The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality

Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - 2018

Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of the variance of log earnings into the variances of...

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Minimum wages and wage compression in Belgian industries

Vandekerckhove, Sem; Desiere, Sam; Lenaerts, Karolien - 2020

Measuring the effects minimum wages have on wage inequality and employment is complex, and troubled by endogeneity … issues. We use a large longitudinal dataset and sectoral minimum wage variation to analyse trends in minimum wages and wage … instrument, we find an additional source of endogeneity in sectoral bargaining. It appears that unions and employer …

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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and hours constraints ; conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014

This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : an extended structural model for policy evaluations

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...

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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : [an extended structural model for policy evaluations]

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

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