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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"Minimum wages"”.
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Beyond Wages and Employment: Do Minimum Wages Affect Management Practices?
Extensive research has examined the impact of minimum wages on employment. Yet less explored is whether and how these mandatory wage increases affect the broader spectrum of management practices and job quality. Compensating differentials theory posits that low-wage employers will diminish non-wage …
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Essays on minimum wages and declining wage inequality in Latin America
… wage inequality in Latin America, focusing on minimum wage policies. Chapter 1 studies potential explanations of the declining wage inequality in Brazil such as changes in demographic/skill composition, wage structure, occupations/sectors and minimum wage. I perform a decomposition of wage …
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Inequality in Perspective: Rethinking Inequality Measurement, Minimum Wages and Elites in Mexico
… of inequality at the bottom, contrasting minimum wage policies over recent decades in Mexico with those of other countries in Latin America. In light of a political economy resistant to change, Section IV scrutinizes Mexican elites, exploring how inequality is perceived from the very top …
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Minimum wages in Uganda : an analysis of Uganda’s domestic, regional and international commitments
The legal case for having a minimum wage can be situated to the constitutional right to safe and satisfactory working conditions and the right to equal pay for equal work, the right to freedom, and dignity among other rights. The setting of a minimum wage can however can have far-reaching impacts …
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Labour market policy and poverty : exploring the macro-micro linkages of minimum wages and wage subsidies
… and their poverty impacts in general, and minimum wages and wage subsidies in particular, both in terms of the theoretical and descriptive analyses provided. Various possible modelling approaches are explored, with careful consideration of the advantages and limitations of each. A rich set …
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Minimum wages as a mechanism for gender pay equity: the role of gender in predicting labour market outcomes from the minimum wage in south Africa's retail and agricultural sectors
Do minimum wages promote greater equity in pay in a developing country context? This paper seeks to answer this question through employing two difference-in-difference (DID) regression techniques to uncover the gendered impact of South Africa's Sectoral Wage Determinations (‘sectoral minimum wages' …
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Minimum Wage States During Recession
This study analyzes the effect of minimum wage legislation during a period of economic recession. In particular, I examine whether states with minimum wages higher than the federal minimum wage fared better or worse during the recession that began December 2007. Since minimum wages raise the price …
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A living wage : strategies for implementation of the minimun wage : the case of the Indian beedi industry
… production and locates in regions that have low wages. Most of the production in the beedi industry is carried out by subcontracting, where the workers are exploited in terms of low wages, lack of social security benefits and poor working conditions. In 1966, the Government of India enacted the …
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The impact of the agricultural minimum wage and the role of enforcement in South Africa
… 1999 South Africa gradually developed a detailed minimum wage schedule covering eleven sectors of the economy. Labour market institutions were also created to enforce the new laws; the efficacy of which has hitherto remained unexamined. The legislated minimum wage in South Africa varies across, …
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Essays in Labor Economics
… spillover effects of increases in state minimum wages. The third chapter studies dynamic employment responses to state-level minimum wage increases. My first chapter examines the recent declining trend in U.S. women's labor force participation. For many decades, the labor force …
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Three essays in economic policy analysis
… an empirical study of the employment effects of minimum wages that are indexed to inflation. The second chapter is an impact evaluation of a land rights program for herders in Mongolia. The third chapter uses the same context as the second, while examinining the link between land rights and labor …
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Essays on education and labor market outcomes in Indonesia
… I query how labor market regulations, such as minimum wage, can affect the incentive to invest in human capital. Between 1994 and 2009, Indonesia’s nominal minimum wages increased more than nine-fold. Previous empirical studies suggest that minimum wage hikes in Indonesia led to increases in …
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Essays on the youth and low-skilled labor market
… analysis of the effect of state and federal minimum wages on earnings inequality over 1979 to 2007, exploiting substantially longer state-level wage panels than were available to earlier analyses as well as a proliferation of recent state minimum wage laws. We obtain identification using …
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… the labour market propagation mechanisms of minimum wages, a policy commonly used to support low-wage workers. Extensive evaluations of minimum wages around the world typically find that higher minimum wages do not generate increased unemployment but are associated with substantial decreases …
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The Effects of Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Force Participation in The Province of Quebec (Canada)
… this study is to estimate the effects of legal minimum wage rate changes on the employment and labor force participation ratios of eight age-sex demographic cohorts in the Province of Quebec over the period 1966-1981. Age classes include teenagers, young adults, adults and older individuals. The …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
… <p>The final chapter estimates the impact of minimum wages on school enrollment, labor force participation, and idleness for people aged 16-19. Using the monthly release of the Current Population Survey for the years 1995 to 2016, the effect is identified by comparing outcomes in …
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Analysis of the effect of oil subsidy withdrawal on the economic growth of Nigeria
… which are; GDP, Inflation, Unemployment and Minimum wage. The research finds evidence that changes in oil price, as a result of subsidy withdrawal, is the major source of variation in GDP, Inflation and Unemployment, while it is not found to be a significant source of variation in minimum …
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The Productivity Trap in Kenya's Highland Agriculture: A Bilevel Programming Analysis of Credit and Wage Constraints
… direction is that of government setting of farm minimum wages which tends to cause labor to be unproductively allocated.
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