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Informality and minimum wages by cohort in Colombia

Cuadernos de Economía, 2014
This article aims to analyze the effect of minimum wage levels on the decision to join the informal job sector. We estimated a pseudo panel model of engagement in the informal sector using an IV-probit.
Jhon James Mora, Juan Muro
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Much ado about little: The Commission proposal for a Directive on adequate wages

Italian Labour Law e-Journal, 2021
The European Commission recently presented a proposal for a Directive on the topic of adequate minimum wages. The purpose of the directive is to prompt an upward convergence of national minimum wages, so as to ensure their adequacy in all EU countries ...
Emanuele Menegatti
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The EU's new minimum wage Directive: Implications for Austria?

University of Vienna Law Review, 2022
On 28 October 2020, less than a year after announcing its commitment to addressing the challenges related to fair minimum wages, the European Commission published a proposal on a Directive on adequate minimum wages in the European Union.
Sophie Schwertner
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Gender and the Minimum Wage

, 2011
A statutory minimum wage is an important element of a gender equality policy programme. While much of mainstream economics still assumes that minimum wages distort the functioning of labour markets, there is accumulating evidence that labour markets without regulation do not operate efficiently.
Rubery, J., Grimshaw, D.
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Navigating the EU Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages: Danish Perspectives on collective bargaining and adequate minimum wages

Italian Labour Law e-Journal
The contribution aims to offer some Danish perspectives on Directive 2022/2041 on adequate minimum wages in the European Union. Three aspects are considered, including the characteristics of the Danish regulation of wages, how the Directive has been ...
Mette Søsted Hemme
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The Behavioral Effects of Minimum Wages [PDF]

, 2005
The prevailing labor market models assume that minimum wages do not affect the labor supply schedule. We challenge this view in this paper by showing experimentally that minimum wages have significant and lasting effects on subjects' reservation wages.
Falk, Armin, Fehr, Ernst, Zehnder, Christian   +2 more
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Minimum Wage Relationship Between Inflation and The Wage-Price Spiral in Turkey

Sosyal Siyaset Konferansları Dergisi, 2020
Working for wage has started to accelerate with the industrial revolution and reached its highest rates with the neo-liberal period. The wage earners now constitute the majority of the society in employment in many countries.
Osman Akgül, Abdullah Miraç Bükey
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Electoral Cycles and Minimum Wages in Argentina

Social Sciences
We document the evolution of minimum salaries in Argentina during electoral cycles. We argue that incumbent politicians tend to significantly increase the growth rates of minimum salaries a few days before primary elections, and they generally keep them ...
Miguel A. Bastos-Boubeta, Angel M. Loureiro-Lodeiro   +1 more
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Business Cycles and Distribution of Wages in Colombia: A Semi-Parametric Wage Density Decomposition Approach

Revista de Economía del Rosario, 2020
This paper examines the changes in real hourly wages in Colombia along the recovery phase taking place from March 2009 to March 2014. The starting finding is that the distribution of wages at trough looks like translations to the left of recovery ...
Jimmy Alexander Melo Moreno
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Minimum wages and the fate of Indonesian young workers

Jurnal Ekonomi Pembangunan, 2020
Government policies that are directly related to the relationship between workers and companies are determining minimum wages. The effect of this minimum wage becomes more varied for developing countries with large populations such as Indonesia.
Izzun Nafiah
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