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Introducing minimum wages in Germany employment effects in a post Keynesian perspective
The long ongoing discussion about the employment impact of minimum wages was recently reinvigorated with the introduction of an economy-wide, binding...
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The Incidence of Pension Contributions: A Panel Based Analysis of the Impact of Pension Contributions on Labor Cost, Wages and Labor Supply
One of the key elements in the planned pension reform in the Netherlands is to abolish the implicit subsidy from younger to older workers inherent in...
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Minimum Wages in China: Overview and Key Findings
Since China enacted its first minimum wage law in 1994, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over...
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Oil price changes and wages: a nonlinear and asymmetric approach
We assess the relationship between oil prices and wages in 15 top oil producing counties in the USA using data between 2001 and 2018. The analysis is...
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The Employment Effects of the Italian Minimum Guaranteed Income Scheme Reddito di Cittadinanza
The Italian guaranteed minimum income programme is the topic of a heated debate scarcely supported by empirical evidence. We investigate the effects...
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Flexible Wages or Flexible Workers? A Decomposition of Wage Bill Adjustment by Dutch Firms, 2006–2013
This paper investigates how firms adjust wages and employment in periods of adverse economic circumstances, using extensive, administrative linked...
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Minimum Wages and Employment in China
This chapter uses county-level minimum wage data and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment...
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Wage inequality dynamics in Turkey
This study aims to analyze wage inequality trends over the last two decades and investigate the impacts of two major policy interventions, minimum...
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Minimum wage regulation in Switzerland: survey evidence for restaurants in the canton of Neuchâtel
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...
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Inclusive Development Experiences-I: Impacts on Poverty, Wages and Labour Market
The MGNREGA has promoted inclusive growth and development by generating additional employment in the economy and by transferring cash income to the...
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Analysing the Politics of Nigeria’s 2019 National Minimum Wage: Towards a Public Policy
This paper analyses the politics that characterised the Nigeria 2019 national minimum wage negotiations and implementation, which so far is the most...
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Pathways Between Minimum Wages and Health: The Roles of Health Insurance, Health Care Access and Health Care Utilization
This study contributes to recent work on the relationship between minimum wages and health by examining potential underlying mechanisms....
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Development aid, remittances inflows and wages in the manufacturing sector
This article has considered the effect of development aid and remittances inflows on wages in the manufacturing sector of recipient economies. The...
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Inflational Surge in the Second Half of the 2020s. Forecast Based on US Data on Commodity Prices and Minimum Wage Since 1946
AbstractThe article proves a number of the author’s hypotheses about inflation in the United States: unexpected jumps in inflation are required to...
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Measuring What Social Partners Do About Wages Over the Business Cycle
Collective bargaining (CB) conducted by trade unions and employer associations (the social partners) plays a key role in the formation of wages in...
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Do minimum wage increases benefit worker health? Evidence from China
This paper investigates whether minimum wage increases affect worker health in China. Using data on low-skilled workers from the 2014 and 2016 China...
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Compliance with Legal Minimum Wages and Overtime Pay in China, Effects Across the Distribution of Wages
This chapter uses Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) survey data for 2007 and 2013 to examine changes in compliance with minimum wages and...
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Impacts of Minimum Wages on Gender Wage Gaps in Urban China
This chapter provides evidence on whether the minimum wage has affected gender wage gaps in urban China. Several major conclusions emerge. First,...
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Assessing the value of household work based on wages demanded on online platforms for substitutes
We propose an improved method to assess the economic value of unpaid housework and childcare. Existing literature has typically assigned a minimum,...
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The schooling response to a sustained increase in low-skill wages: evidence from Spain 1989–2009
The response of human capital accumulation to changes in the anticipated returns to schooling determines the type of skills supplied to the labor...
