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Spatial Implications of Minimum Wages
Büttner, Thiess; Ebertz, Alexander - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2009
This paper addresses possible consequences of a minimum wage in a spatial context. An empirical analysis utilizing German data shows that a signifcant spatial wage structure exists and that, as a consequence, the share of workers earning wages below a minimum wage will be particularly high in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046787
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Spatial Implications of Minimum Wages
Buettner, Thiess; Ebertz, Alexander - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 229 (2009) 2-3, pp. 292-312
This paper addresses possible consequences of a minimum wage in a spatial context. An empirical analysis utilizing German data shows that a significant spatial wage structure exists and that, as a consequence, the share of workers earning wages below a minimum wage will be particularly high in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559110
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LEHD Infrastructure Files in the Census RDC: Overview of S2004 Snapshot
McKinney, Kevin; Vilhuber, Lars - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2011
The Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) Program at the U.S. Census Bureau, with the support of several national research agencies, has built a set of infrastructure files using administrative data provided by state agencies, enhanced with information from other administrative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643157
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Low Wage Jobs and Pathways to Better Outcomes
Richardson, Sue; Miller-Lewis, Lauren - 2002
review of the international literature finds that the extent of mobility depends on the definition of low wage, and that the … than men, and have lower mobility. Higher education reduces the risk of low pay, but not to zero. The paper goes on to … examine the extent and sources of wage mobility, and looks carefully at the question of whether a low wage job can be assumed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115516
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319365
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Low Wage Jobs and Pathways to Better Outcomes
Richardson, Sue; Miller-Lewis, Lauren - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2002
review of the international literature finds that the extent of mobility depends on the definition of low wage, and that the … than men, and have lower mobility. Higher education reduces the risk of low pay, but not to zero. The paper goes on to … examine the extent and sources of wage mobility, and looks carefully at the question of whether a low wage job can be assumed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005607246
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kohlhase, Janet E. - 2003
The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075969
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from centres of economic activity, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010314952
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The Empirical Relevance of the New Economic Geography: Testing for a Spatial Wage Structure in Germany
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - CESifo - 2000
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have the tendency to fall the further one moves away from centres of economic activity, we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196275