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Minimum wages for domestic workers: a comprehensive analysis
Acta Academica, 2003 This article investigates the impact of a minimum wage for domestic workers on employment levels. A comparative analysis of two surveys undertaken in a Bloemfontein suburb challenges the Minister’s statement that the newly announced minimum wages for ...
Louis Bothma, Celeste Campher
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Minimum Wages and On-the-job Training [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 1999 Much of the recent debate on the minimum wage has focused on its employment implications. The theory of human capital suggests that minimum wages should also have important adverse effects on human capital accumulation. In the standard human capital theory, as developed by Becker (1964), Ben-Porath (1967), and Mincer (1974), a large part of human ...
Acemoglu, Daron, Pischke, Jrn-Steffen
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Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2021 In autumn 2020, the European Commission published a proposal for a "Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union". For the first time in the history of the EU, draft legislation is on the table which explicitly aims not only to significantly
Thorsten Schulten, Torsten Müller
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THE EFFECT OF MINIMUM WAGES ON EMPLOYMENT IN INDONESIA
Buletin Ekonomi Moneter dan Perbankan, 2003 Minimum wages have been a major consideration in Indonesia in recent years, as the government has strongly pursued a minimum wage policy. The levels of regional minimum wages have been increased significantly since 1989, and there is a concern that these
Leo Sukatrilaksana
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Tinjauan Hukum Pemberian Upah Pada Buruh Dibawah Upah Minimum Provinsi
Al-Manhaj, 2023 Getting a decent job and livelihood is a basic right of every citizen as a citizen that must be obtained. In its implementation, it cannot be denied that there are problems in employment, one of which concerns wages.
Tri Dian Aprilsesa +3 more
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Minimum Wages and Excessive Effort Supply [PDF]
, 2009 It is well-known that, in static models, minimum wages generate positive worker rents and, consequently, inefficiently low e?ort. We show that this result does not necessarily extend to a dynamic context.
Kräkel, Matthias, Schöttner, Anja
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Rigidity of Nominal Wages of Non-Production Workers in Industrial Sector
JEJAK: Jurnal Ekonomi dan Kebijakan, 2016 Excess supply of labor leads to low the levels of nominal wages received by workers. The amount of minimum wage rate exceeds the market wage rate. The determination of minimum wage is a factor manifested in the institutional and regulatory Provincial ...
Bambang Sulistiyono +2 more
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market [PDF]
, 2004 This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings among workers covered by minimum wage legislation as well as those for whom it does not apply (the uncovered sector) in Costa Rica.
Gindling, Tim, Terrell, Katherine
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A comparison of actual and minimum wages in the iron and steel industry (1978-1983)
South African Journal of Business Management, 1990 In 1983 two million employees in South Africa were subject to minimum wages in terms of industrial council or wage board legislation. Studies of wage determination have been hampered by the lack of knowledge of actual wage rates.
I. B. Hipkin
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Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 1999 This paper investigates the extent to which people spend careers on minimum wage jobs. We find that a small but non-trivial number of NLSY respondents spend 25%, 50%, or even 75% of the first ten years of their career on minimum or near-minimum wage jobs.
Bruce Fallick, William J. Carrington
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