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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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model with demographic and firm productivity heterogeneity. The model replicates observed gender gaps in employment, hours … penalty to address non-compliance. Based on our model, the minimum wage primarily reduces the gender income gap through the … gender wage gap. At its 2022 level, the German minimum wage reduces the gender employment and hours gap due to an upward …
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model with demographic and firm productivity heterogeneity. The model replicates observed gender gaps in employment, hours … penalty to address non-compliance. Based on our model, the minimum wage primarily reduces the gender income gap through the … gender wage gap. At its 2022 level, the German minimum wage reduces the gender employment and hours gap due to an upward …
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On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880306
On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915314
model with demographic and firm productivity heterogeneity. The model replicates observed gender gaps in employment, hours … penalty to address non-compliance. Based on our model, the minimum wage primarily reduces the gender income gap through the … gender wage gap. At its 2022 level, the German minimum wage reduces the gender employment and hours gap due to an upward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352806
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958955
empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296775
In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961942