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Minimum wage: Labour market consequences in the Czech Republic
Fialová, Kamila; Mysíková, Martina - 2009
This paper aims to quantify the impact of the minimum wage on labour market performance in the Czech Republic. Using regional data for 1995-2004, it estimates the effect of the minimum wage adjusted for regional wage differential on the regional unemployment. Consequently, using detail...
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
van den Berg, Gerard J. - 1999
It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
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In the shadow of the labour market
Ognedal, Tone - 2012
Why do not people evade more taxes when their gain from evasion is higher than the expected penalties? Why does only a small minority evade when a large majority is willing to? These tax evasion puzzles are explained in a labour market framework where employees may combine reported work in firms...
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Arm trotz Arbeit? Zum Für und Wider von Mindestlöhnen
Reeb, Barbara; Krome, Malte - 2011
Gegenstand dieses Beitrages ist die Untersuchung des Mindestlohnes hinsichtlich seiner Auswirkungen auf die Beschäftigung in den theoretischen Modellen und empirischen Studien sowie der rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen und der Ursachen der Mindestlohndebatte.
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Stabilität und Wandel von Arbeitsmarktinstitutionen aus wettbewerbsökonomischer Sicht
Göddeke, Anna; Haucap, Justus; Herr, Annika; Wey, Christian - In: Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung - Journal for … 44 (2011) 1/2, pp. 143-154
This contribution gives an overview of the main results of our theoretical research on the stability and change of labour market institutions. We use so-called models of unionised oligopolies which are borrowed from the theory of industrial organization in order to analyse the effects of...
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Beschäftigungseffekte von Mindestlöhnen: Die Dosis macht das Gift
Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael; Kucsera, Dénes - In: ifo Schnelldienst 72 (2019) 02, pp. 40-46
einem höheren Anreiz, einen Job anzunehmen. Der signifikante, nicht-lineare empirische Zusammenhang zwischen Mindestlohn und … beziehungsweise in Ländern mit hoher Arbeitsproduktivität ist ein höherer Mindestlohn ohne negative Beschäftigungseffekte möglich. Für … Deutschland kommen die Autoren zu dem Ergebnis, dass der derzeitige Mindestlohn beinahe dem Optimalen entspricht. Es zeigt sich …
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Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training
Zoega, Gylfi; Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L. - 2002
In oligopsonistic labour markets, firms have some market power, and a wedge is created between wages and marginal product. When oligopsonistic firms' production technology requires generally trained workers, firms may therefore receive part of the returns to general training and be willing to...
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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia
Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - 2002
Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...
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Minimum wages and firm profitability
Draca, Mirko; Machin, Stephen; Van Reenen, John - 2006
Although there is a large literature on the economic effects of minimum wages on labour market outcomes (especially employment), there is hardly any evidence on their impact on firm performance. This is surprising: minimum wages appear to have a significant impact on wages, but only a limited...
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Optimal taxation and monopsonistic labor market: does monopsony justify the minimum wage?
Cahuc, Pierre; Laroque, Guy - 2007
We analyze optimal taxation in an economy with monopsonistic labor markets. The individuals, whose only decisions are whether to work, or not, have heterogeneous productivities and opportunity costs of work. Given its preferences for redistribution, the government, which does not observe the...
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