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The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) is based on an annual one per cent sample of employee jobs and provides … many of the UK's official earnings statistics. These statistics are generated using official weights designed to make the …. Additionally, there is evidence of systematic year-to-year longitudinal attrition among employees who remain in scope, for which no …
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drop-out mechanisms (panel attrition, non-employment) and "initial conditions" (base-year low pay status). This model, and … initial conditions and retention of employment are more important than the "survey" selection mechanism (attrition). However …
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and correct for nonresponse bias. To do so, we examine a survey on labor market conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic … bias, even after correcting for observable differences between participants and nonparticipants. We apply a range of … existing methods that account for nonresponse bias due to unobserved differences, including worst-case bounds, bounds that …
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Many household panel surveys have experienced decreasing response rates and increasing risk of nonresponse bias in … recent decades, but trends in response rates and nonresponse bias in business or establishment panel surveys are largely … understudied. This article examines both panel response rates and nonresponse bias in one of the largest and longest …
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We document firms' adjustment channels to minimum wage regulation, leveraging an unexpected Supreme Court ruling mandating the Swiss canton Neuchâtel to enforce a minimum hourly wage of around CHF20 (approx. USD 20) previously accepted via popular ballot. Given policy discontinuity at cantonal...
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This paper provides a first set of results on the impact of minimum wage regulation in Switzerland. We study the effects of an unexpected Supreme Court ruling mandating the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel to enforce a minimum hourly wage of around CHF 20 previously accepted via popular ballot. Given...
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We analyse response patterns to an important survey of school children, exploiting rich auxiliary information on respondents' and non-respondents' cognitive ability that is correlated both with response and the learning achievement that the survey aims to measure. The survey is the Programme for...
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Minimum wage increases are not a very effective mechanism for reducing poverty. They are not related to decreases in poverty rates. They can cost some low-income workers their jobs. And most minimum wage earners who gain from a higher minimum wage do not live in poor (or near-poor) families. A...
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This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...
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This paper investigates the degree of monopsony power of employers in different industries against the background of a statutory minimum wage introduction in Germany in January 2015. A semi-structural estimation approach is employed based on a dynamic model of monopsonistic competition. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011408479