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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Work and Labor in Slow-Progressive Sectors of the Economy

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2013
In the late 1960s, William Baumol demonstrated that structurally unbalanced growth, with the associated cost disease phenomenon, can be expected to have some very particular effects on work and labor in slow-progressive sectors of the economy: performing
Matti Vuorensyrjä
doaj   +1 more source

Analysis of the level of gender inequality in the labor market in Kazakhstan

open access: yesХабаршысы. Экономика сериясы, 2023
The purpose of this study is to assess the level of gender differences in the labor market of Kazakh-stan before and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The relevance of the study is provided by the need to investigate the causes of gender differences and ...
A.A. Kireyeva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cantillon e Sismondi sobre população, renda e subsistência Cantillon and Sismondi on population, revenue and subsistence

open access: yesBrazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2007
The paper compares Cantillon's and Sismondi's views on population, revenue and wage of subsistence, having Malthus' law of population as a background. We assume that the XVIII and XIX century controversies on population and economic development provide a
Mauricio C. Coutinho
doaj   +1 more source

Active Aging Policies between Individual Needs and Collective Goods. A Study of Active Aging Policies and Practices in Norway

open access: yesNordic Journal of Working Life Studies, 2014
A main objective of European governments is to reduce the number of early retirees, either by reforming pension systems or promoting active aging in working life.
Tove Midtsundstad, Hanne Bogen
doaj   +1 more source

Job Search With Legal and Illegal Workers: A Comparative Static Analysis

open access: yesEconomics and Business, 2020
This paper incorporates government immigration policy variables in a job search and match framework to examine its implication on labour market outcomes. The main assumption is that illegal workers can be penalized by receiving lower equilibrium wages or
Ogbeifun Lawrence
doaj   +1 more source

How Much to Invest and What Degree to Get? Education As a Strategy on the Labour Market Scale

open access: yesJournal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 2023
When workers hear about a possible promotion, it is common for them to get training, and they can do so through education. However, there is the possibility that the worker needs to receive a salary according to the knowledge acquired in such training ...
Luis Antonio Andrade Rosas   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Labor market in the UK in digital era: The gender dimension

open access: yesRUDN journal of Sociology, 2021
The article considers gender discrimination in the field of labor relations in the United Kingdom (UK) in the pre-covid period. In the past decades, the Western European countries have made the most significant progress in achieving gender equality in ...
E. A. Mosakova, K. Kizilova
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating employment patterns and determinants in the European Union through panel data insights

open access: yesManagement şi Marketing
Employment is an important element of inclusive and sustainable economic growth because it has powerful effects on society. At the individual level, employment is a prerequisite for economic independence, social development, and professional satisfaction.
Vasilescu Maria Denisa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Are Prize-Linked Savings Accounts the Solution to Arkansas\u27 Savings Problem? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This research finds that access to prize-linked savings could improve the financial security of Arkansans. Prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts are nontraditional savings products that offer depositors the chance to win cash prizes instead of a typical ...
Wages, McKenzie
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