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Exploring the Demographic Factors Affecting Passage of Living Wage Ordinances [PDF]
An analysis based on data from the Current Population Survey suggests that cities with certain demographics, particularly higher concentrations of immigrants from south of the American border, lower levels of educational attainment, more people in low ...
Oren M. Levin-Waldman
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The Role of the Minimum Wage in the Welfare State : An Appraisal [PDF]
, 2000 In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) How binding are minimum wage floors in different ...
Jimeno, Juan F. +2 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsThe labour movement has been a key factor for cities’ development and caused regional inequality between cities. Although empirical studies have been conducted to investigate it, little theoretical evidence has been provided to find out the underlying ...
Tiange Qi, Yuning Gao, Yongjian Huang
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Over the last two decades, high – and, in some countries, rising – rates of low-wage work have emerged as a major political concern. If low-wage jobs act as a stepping stone to higher-paying work, then even a relatively high share of low-wage work may ...
John Schmitt
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WORKIN CONDITION OF RURAL LABOR IN MEXICO
Ra Ximhai, 2016 The aim of this paper is to show the behavior of the working conditions of the rural labor force of Mexico in the context of trade liberalization (1990-2010). Therefore, trends in agricultural and non-agricultural occupations are reviewed; salaried and
Felipe Contreras-Molotla
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Should low-wage workers care about where they work? Assessing the impact of employer characteristics on low-wage mobility [PDF]
This paper studies the importance of employer-specific determinants in escaping low earnings in Germany. To address the initial conditions problem and the endogeneity of employer retention, we model (intra-firm) low-pay transitions using a multivariate ...
Heinze, Anja, Guertzgen, Nicole
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Compensating Wage Differentials and the Duration of Wage Loss [PDF]
Several reasons are offered why workers will receive larger compensating wage differentials for increases in the duration of wage losses than for increases in the probability of loss that produce the same expected loss.
John R. Wolfe, Daniel S. Hamermesh
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Green Tax Reform, marginal revenue of wage income taxes, and the wage curve: A brief note
Schneider (1997) showed that the success of a green tax reform depends crucially on a smallslope of the wage curve of an efficiency wage model in which production occurs using a secondfactor E, energy or emissions.
Ziesemer,Thomas
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Sectoral Value Added Prices, TFP Growth, and the Low-Skilled Wage in High-Income Countries [PDF]
This econometric analysis investigates the impact of changes in sectoral value-added prices and total factor productivity (TFP) on the equilibrium relative wage of low-skilled workers in eleven high-income countries.
Matthias Lücke
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Does tariff liberalization increase wage inequality ? - Some empirical evidence [PDF]
The objective of the paper is to answer an often asked question: If tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality? The authors consider two types of wage inequality: between occupations (skills premium) and between industries.
Squire, Lyn, Milanovic, Branko
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