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No. Author(s) Title JEL Class.
1073 Simon Commander
János Köllő
The Changing Demand for Skills: Evidence from the Transition
Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a ...
(published in: Economics of Transition, 2008, 16 (2), 199-221. )
J21, J23, J63, P31
1072 Sara Lemos
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices
It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing ...
(published as: 'A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 187-212.)
J38
1071 Sara Lemos
The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil
There is very little empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper estimates the minimum ...
(published as: 'Anticipated Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38(3), 325-337.)
J38
1070 Sara Lemos
Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or ...
(published as: 'Comparing Employment Estimates Using Different Minimum Wage Variables: the case of Brazil' in: International Review of Applied Economic, 2009, 23(4), 405-425.)
J38
1069 Sara Lemos
A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil’s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. ...
(published as 'Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil' in: Economía: Journal of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association, 2004, 5 (1), 219-266)
J38
1068 Lorenzo Cappellari
Earnings Mobility Among Italian Low Paid Workers
This paper uses Italian panel data to analyse transition probabilities at the bottom of the earnings distribution during the 1990s. The analytical framework is characterised by the ability to ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2007, 20 (3), 465-482)
C23, C35, D31, J31
1067 Gilles Saint-Paul
Did European Labor Markets Become More Competitive in the 1990s? Evidence from Estimated Worker Rents
This paper analyses the evolution of quantitative measures of employee rents in Europe during the nineties, using the European Household Panel Survey. One looks at two class of measures: wage ...
(published in: Labor Markets and Institutions, Santiago: Central Bank of Chile 2005; 281-300)
D3, E24, J3
1066 Gilles Saint-Paul
Why Are European Countries Diverging in Their Unemployment Experience?
During the nineties, unemployment has fallen in a number of European countries while it has remained high in others. The paper discusses potential causes for that evolution in light of recent ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2004, 18 (4), 49-68)
D7, E24, J6
1063 Kalena E. Cortes
Are Refugees Different from Economic Immigrants? Some Empirical Evidence on the Heterogeneity of Immigrant Groups in the United States
This paper analyzes how the implicit difference in time horizons between refugees and economic immigrants affects subsequent human capital investments and wage assimilation. The analysis uses the ...
(published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, 86(2), 465-480)
C81, F22, J24, J31
1062 Peter Fredriksson
Per Johansson
Dynamic Treatment Assignment – The Consequences for Evaluations Using Observational Data
This paper discusses the evaluation problem using observational data when the timing of treatment is an outcome of a stochastic process. We show that the duration framework in discrete time ...
(published in: Journal of Business and Economics Statistics, 2008, 26 (4), 435–445)
C14, C41
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