... The minimumwage is a key element of economic and social policy in developing ...The minimumwage affects not only workers in the formal sector, but also many prices and taxes which are set ...
... on minimumwage labor intensive goods, or the prices of such goods go up by much more, or ...because minimumwage workers are present in various sectors throughout the economy and thus the ...
... The minimumwage establishment has its origin in the first third of the last ...the minimumwage on employment and other macroeconomic variables, from both theoretical and empirical ...on ...
... average wage levels are at the same time characterised by low ...regions minimumwage, relatively high with respect to the regional average, might be the factor potentially limiting demand for labour ...
... of minimum wages has different ...binding minimumwage is a rigidity that causes ...A minimumwage above this level forces firms to lay off those workers below that productivity ...
... in minimumwage makes low-wage workers more prone to lose their ...status minimumwage provisions do not ...a minimum social security contribution base, which determines ...
... 2 minimum wages, while the fraction in the formal sector is about two ...the minimumwage are formal according to Firm Size & Occupation and Health, ...the minimumwage; ii) medium ...
... In addition, the curve formed by the averaged values (from 1999 to 2014) of the percentage salaries paid, estimated through the fitted Fréchet distributions, is shown in Figure 6 (right), together with the curves that ...
... It is also quite noticeable that students attending new programs are substantially different from students who attend existing programs. In particular, they come from lower socioeconomic status families. The share of ...
... socioeconomic status and the presence of disease. The findings of this study show the existence of a greater disease burden among those who have a more unfavorable economic condition. Children whose family owned less ...
... low wage elasticity, while low unemployment is related to higher sensitivity of wages to local labour market conditions» and that the «results seem to indicate that regions which suffer from larger unemployment ...
... From a supply-demand framework, the net effect of an educational upgrading of labour force upon wage inequality is conditioned to the trends in labour demand (in particular, demand for more educated workers). If ...
... dawn and a local minimum in the topside plasma tempera- ture in the afternoon. The hydrogen ion fraction was found to exhibit hyperbolic tangent-shaped profiles that become shal- low (gradually changing) above the ...
... the minimum superfluid moment of inertia that can act as an angular momentum reservoir (Andersson et ...a minimum glitch size have not been addressed; so far, the smallest possible glitch has been assumed ...
... The skilled biased technological change has become a popular explanation for the grow- ing inequality between skilled individuals. There is a wide literature studying the channels through which highly skilled agents ...
... may suggest because child labor is primarily observed in poor countries, common sense tells us that child labor should decline (and schooling increase) if parents’ wages increase, child wage falls or if total ...
... potential wage workers willing to work at the current real wage rate will/must be e¤ec- tively employed, neither in the short-run (disequilibrium) nor in the long-run (equilibrium), simply because there is ...
... The paper concluded: “quite on the contrary [to the belief that the relevant elasticities are low and the efficiency gains associated with labor reform are relatively weak], the payoff of reducing labor costs is ...
... Alternatively, it is natural to wonder about the interpretation of Redding and Venables’s (2004) wage equation when capital adopts the form of capital stock, as in the constructed capital model (Baldwin et al., ...
... We report results from an ultimatum bargaining experiment showing that a cheap talk trade union facilitating verbal non binding communication among workers raises employers’ wage offers and observed wages without ...