Thèses : « Minimun wage »

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Raghunath, Madhu M. 1974. « A living wage : strategies for implementation of the minimun wage : the case of the Indian beedi industry ». Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69430.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2001.
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92% of India's total workforce (approximately 320 million workers) is employed in the unorganized sector. Out of these, 4.4 million workers are employed by the beedi (indigenous cigarette) industry. Annually, this industry contributes nearly 13% of the total indirect taxes to the central government. The beedi industry is highly mobile in nature. It is also one of the most exploitative labor intensive industries in India. The industry thrives on the cheap cost of production and locates in regions that have low wages. Most of the production in the beedi industry is carried out by subcontracting, where the workers are exploited in terms of low wages, lack of social security benefits and poor working conditions. In 1966, the Government of India enacted the Beedi and Cigar Workers (Employment of Conditions) Act to protect the workers from exploitation, provide the workers with minimum wages and social security benefits. The Act allows a state government to fix its own minimum wages. This has resulted in varying rates of minimum wages across states. States that have enforced higher minimum wages have witnessed an industrial flight of the beedi firms, leaving behind thousands of unemployed workers. Further, the enforcement and implementation of the Act has been very ineffective. The report identifies successful strategies for implementation of minimum wages in the beedi sector by analyzing the cases of the Kerala Dinesh Beedi Cooperative and the Self Employed Women's Association. These organizations have been successful in their approaches because they were able to 1) organize beedi workers into trade unions and cooperatives, 2) garner political support for their movement, and 3) compete with other beedi producers in the country. The report recommends that implementation of the minimum wages in the beedi industry in India can be achieved by a) developing a national minimum wage policy for the beedi industry, and b) increased cooperation between the trade unions, government, NGO's, political parties, employers and beedi workers.
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Moscariello, Valentino. « The youth employment rate and the role of minimum wage, labor market policies and institutions : theory and estimates ». Doctoral thesis, Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10556/1947.

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Growth and labour market forecast in OECD countries remains bleak for 2013, especially for youth. The modest employment recovery in 2011 did not continue in 2012: youth unemployment rates stagnated at 15.7% in 2014 (OECD: Employment Outlook, 2013). This is well above pre-crisis rates, 11.8% in 2007. According to the OECD, the modest increase in GDP forecasted for 2013 (1.2%) and the subsequent slow recovery in 2014 (2.3%) will be insufficient to create employment and reduce unemployment in a substantial way.It is particularly alarming that one every 11 young people are now unemployed, not in full time studies or in employment. Also youth have lower access to unemployment benefits that adults, for lack of employment history (OECD, 2010, off to a Good Start, Jobs for Youth Synthesis Report). These trends have contributed to higher rates of poverty and social exclusion and increasing polarization in society and in the labour market. For instance, living standards decreased in 15 Member States in 2010 with respect to the year before (Eurostat, March 2013). These issues represent tremendous social and economic costs to society, in terms of worsening social dislocation, skills loss, violence and crime, as much as they denote important failures to get unemployed back to productive and sustainable jobs, and to protect youth at risk of poverty. Aggregate demand is low and this certainly explains high levels of youth unemployment rates. However a number of barriers may prevent that demand translate into higher employment for youth. In particular, vocational training might not be well adapted to changing labour market requirements. In addition, there could be demand-side obstacles to youth employment. Employers, for example, might be faced with high social security contributions for low-paid work, or face high minimum wages. There might be insufficient support to help the young unemployed to find work. Finally, jobs prospects for youth are hampered by limited regional mobility in some countries of Central and Eastern Europe and South Europe (OECD, Jobs for Youth, Synthesis Report, 2010). This thesis seeks to measure whether high levels of minimum wages could explain rising unemployment rates for youth in OECD countries, other things equal. It also looks at whether other labour market institutions, such as strict Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) can explain low employment levels (for youth). It takes into account also the role paid by active labour market policy, collective agreement and a youth sub-minimum wage for 2 youth. The analysis uses a cross-section of panel data on minimum wages over the period 2000 to 2011, while from 2000 to 2008 for others employment protection legislation, and from 2004 to 2011 for active labour market policies indictors, including 22 OECD. Following Bassanini and Duval(2010), a panel data model has been used including GMM indicator, using the same data base but including different time period. The main conclusions are that, minimum wage, measured with Kaitz Index, has a negative impact on youth employment. Additionally, some ALMP’S seem to show a positive effect on youth employment(elasticity); this is a very important thing mainly because it has never been estimated in previous paper(only the theory was able to support it). Considering labor market institutions, their impact depends by which one we consider: union density confirms its negative impact on youth employment rate, while on the other hand EPL variable using OECD definition confirms its positive effect on youth employment. ALMP’S have a great influence on youth employment rate, several variables are positive and significant, while other variable included in the model only in part confirms previous literature. The last part of the second chapter ends with a little discussion about gender discrimination in the issue of youth employment too. As results show, also if the sign of the variable is always the same (confirming both literature and the goodness of the model), however the magnitude tends to be stronger (in negative meaning), for female estimates... [edited by Author]
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Zavodny, Madeline. « The minimum wage : maximum controversy over a minimal effect ? » Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/10843.

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Georgiadis, Andreas. « Efficiency wages in low-wage labour markets and the economic effects of the minimum wage ». Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/9d698b57-f74b-46ed-b53c-f61f90778c13.

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Khangala, Lavinia Musiwa. « Minimum wage fixing for domestic employees ». Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17505.

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Lam, Cheuk-ho Raymond. « Labor politics in Hong Kong a case study on minimum wages legislation / ». Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38283591.

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Lemos, Sara Eloisa Vilmar da Silva. « The effect of the minimum wage on wages, employment and prices in Brazil ». Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407159.

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Jirásek, Tomáš. « Economists and Minimum Wage Laws ». Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-150319.

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The minimum wage is a tool of public policy which despite being in favor of politics tends to be in displeasure of economists. Recent consensus study shows (Alston, 1992; Fuller, 2003) that consensus on minimum wage among economists has a tendency for weakening. The goal of my thesis was to map the consensus of economists on minimum wage in the course of the 20th century and to help to answer the question how the view of economists has changed on this topic and which events were of greatest influence. As a way of measuring the consensus I chose the studying of academic articles because it is the direct output of academic community. My study shows that from the 1930s we can see a constant strengthening of ideas that a minimum wage has a negative effect on economy.

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Tyliszczak, John. « Can Minimum Wage Help Forecast Unemployment ? » Miami University / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1505993717427293.

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Pelek, Selin. « Les effets du salaire minimum sur le marché du travail turc ». Thesis, Paris 13, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA131001.

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Cette thèse a pour objectif d’analyser des effets du salaire minimum en Turquie où le salaire minimum est un instrument de politique sociale essentiel. Cette thèse s’articule autour de quatre chapitres : Le premier chapitre présente les institutions du salaire minimum et les principaux résultats obtenus dans la littérature concernant les divers effets du salaire minimum sur les différentes variables économiques et sociales dans les pays en développement. Le deuxième chapitre identifie empiriquement le profil des salariés payés au salaire minimum. Les résultats indiquent que la probabilité d’être rémunéré au salaire minimum est élevée parmi la population considérée comme « fragile ». Le troisième chapitre examine les effets du salaire minimum sur l’emploi dans le cadre de la demande et de l’offre du travail et montre que le salaire minimum n’a pas d’impact négatif sur l’emploi. Par ailleurs, une hausse du salaire minimum exerce un effet positif sur la probabilité de rester en emploi. Le dernier chapitre étudie l’évolution de la distribution des salaires au cours de la dernière décennie en Turquie. Les résultats indiquent que la hausse du salaire minimum en 2004 a contribué à réduire les inégalités salariales
Minimum wage is an important tool of social policy. It consists of four chapters: The first chapter presents the institutions of the minimum wage and the main results in the literature concerning the effects of minimum wages on the various economic and social variables in developing countries. The second chapter identifies empirically the profile of workers paid at minimum wage. The results indicate that the probability of receiving the minimum wage is high among the groups considered "fragile". The third chapter examines the impact of the minimum wage on employment in the context of demand and supply of labor and shows that the minimum wage has no negative impact on employment. Besides, a minimum wage increase has a positive effect on the probability of remaining employed. The last chapter analyzes the evolution of the wage distribution over the last decade in Turkey. The results show that the minimum wage increase in 2004 contributed to reduce wage inequality in this country

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Fung, Ka-po Karen. « The debate over minimum wage the Hong Kong case / ». Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38288941.

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Wong, Pui-han Nerissa. « An institutional analysis of minimum wage policy in Hong Kong ». Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2002. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B2513954x.

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Pauw, Karl. « Labour market policy and poverty : exploring the macro-micro linkages of minimum wages and wage subsidies ». Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5715.

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This study adds value to the South African literature on labour market policy evaluation and their poverty impacts in general, and minimum wages and wage subsidies in particular, both in terms of the theoretical and descriptive analyses provided. Various possible modelling approaches are explored, with careful consideration of the advantages and limitations of each. A rich set of model results is also generated. Under both the policies evaluated, the poverty outcome is shown to generally be positive but small. Furthermore, the outcome is highly sensitive to the wage elasticity of demand: while minimum wages tend to be more effective in reducing poverty when the wage elasticity is low, wage subsidies generate superior outcomes under a high wage elasticity scenario.

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Owens, Mark F. « The behavioral effects of wage and employment policies with gift exchange present ». Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1149002151.

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Mabuza, Patrick Velaphi. « Revisiting minimum wage-fixing in South Africa ». Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5744.

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Lucas, Rosemary. « Employee relations in the hotel and catering industry ». Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.337843.

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Bucila, Laura M. « Employment-based health insurance and the minimum wage ». Connect to this title online, 2008. http://etd.lib.clemson.edu/documents/1219850385/.

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Phelan, Brian J. « Essays on worker displacement and the minimum wage ». Thesis, The Johns Hopkins University, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3572708.

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This dissertation is composed of three essays. In the first essay of this dissertation, I reexamine the effect of industrial mobility on the cost of worker displacement. While the human capital implications of this regularity are well understood, no current model can explain why a displaced worker would ever choose to "switch." I develop a match-based model of wages and endogenous mobility and show that switching industries may, indeed, be optimal for some "mismatched" workers. I then use data on displaced workers to re-estimate the cost of switching industries that controls for the endogeneity of industrial mobility. I find that switching industries is an optimal decision from the point of view of individual displaced workers — i.e. that losses would have been even larger had they "stayed." The results suggest that skill mismatch and the resulting inability of some workers to re-match their task-specific skills via reemployment is an important determinant of the observed costs of worker displacement.

In the second essay, I estimate the degree of heterogeneity in the outcomes of displaced workers and analyze the extent to which these heterogeneous experiences can be explained by observable (or "systematic") factors as opposed to unobserved (or "idiosyncratic") factors. To this end, I use data on displaced workers to estimate the standard deviation of earnings losses following displacement. I find statistically significant heterogeneity at the lower bound, which is equal to about half of the mean effect each year following displacement. Once I control for systematic differences in observable characteristics, the remaining idiosyncratic variation is estimated to be about 20%-40% less than the total variation in the first few years following displacement and 50%-80% less than the total variation six to eight years after displacement. Systematic variation, however, remains fairly large and constant over time. These results suggest that idiosyncratic factors, such as luck or unobserved quality, have largely transitory effects on the outcomes of displaced workers while systematic factors, such as industrial mobility and unemployment duration, disproportionately explain the persistent heterogeneity in the costs of worker displacement.

The third essay explores the potential causes of spillovers in the wage distribution that occur when the minimum wage increases. This empirical phenomenon, known as the "ripple effect" of minimum wage laws, is typically explained in terms of demand substitution: where the rising minimum increases the demand for more-skilled workers who become relatively inexpensive compared to less-skilled workers. I show that workers will also respond to changes in the minimum wage by re-optimizing their labor supply since an increase in the minimum wage leads to lower compensating wage differentials. The resulting decline in labor supply at hedonically less desirable (and hence, higher paying) jobs could also cause the ripple effect. I combine labor market data on individuals with occupation-level hedonic data and provide evidence that the ripple effect is largely caused by labor supply substitution and not labor demand substitution as previously believed.

Keywords: Job Displacement, Tasks, Mismatch, Human Capital, Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Minimum Wage, Ripple Effect, Hedonic Wages.

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Lu, Ruosi. « The minimum wage, inequality and employment in China ». Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6390/.

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This study looks at the welfare implications of the minimum wage in China, and covers three topics: the minimum wage and wage inequality, the minimum wage and employment, and the minimum wage and the gender wage gap. The main finding is that the welfare implications of the minimum wage in China are mixed, with both positive and negative welfare effects. Four main conclusions are reached. Firstly, minimum wages can effectively reduce overall wage inequality at the municipal level (despite non-compliance) through raising individual wages at the lower end of the wage distribution. Secondly, minimum wages generally have significantly negative effects on urban employment with some indication of more marked effects for traditionally disadvantaged groups such as youth, older workers, and women. Thirdly, minimum wages significantly raise women’s wages relative to men’s at the lower quantiles of wage distribution, thus reducing the gender wage gap. Together with the second result, this means that the minimum raises women’s relative wages, while lowering their employment. Fourthly, these three results are especially robust during 2004-2007, when the minimum wage system was reinforced.

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Rukman, Enung Yani Suryani 1968. « Minimum wage in Indonesia = Salário mínimo na Indonésia ». [s.n.], 2014. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/286409.

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Orientador: Paulo Eduardo de Andrade Baltar
Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Economia
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Resumo: A Indonésia é um país que tem heterogeneidade em vários aspectos da vida, incluindo seus recursos, tais como fatores geográficos, sociais e econômicos. O emprego na Indonésia é um desses fatores interessantes a serem explorados. O salário mínimo é uma questão muito fundamental no emprego. Na Indonésia, a questão do salário mínimo não é apenas econômica, mas também envolve as questões políticas contidas em leis trabalhistas. Este estudo explora o salário mínimo na Indonésia durante várias épocas políticas: antes de 1980, em 1998 e 2010. Devido às limitações dos dados, estudo usa os dados selecionados que satisfazem os fins da presente pesquisa. A Indonésia ainda não tem um sistema de salário mínimo nacional. As evidências deste estudo sugerem que existem diferentes salários mínimos para cada província. Os dados analisados neste estudo avaliam o salário mínimo de quatro províncias em cada uma das regiões Oeste e Leste, e cinco províncias da região central da Indonésia, representando treze províncias fora da Indonésia de trinta e três, onde, quando combinados, abrangem mais de setenta por cento do total população. Alguns empregadores alegam que a fixação anual dos salários mínimos nas provinciais pode limitar a contratação e reduzir a força de trabalho, prejudicando os níveis de produção. No entanto, os baixos salários impedem os trabalhadores de terem uma vida digna. O autor argumenta que a fixação do salário mínimo é necessária para respeitar a dignidade dos trabalhadores como seres humanos, conforme a UUD 1945, Constituição da República da Indonésia. A fixação do salário mínimo não é suficiente para resolver o problema dos salários em geral. É preciso melhorar o salário médio na Indonésia. A melhoria no salário médio deve aumentar a desigualdade salarial, caso não haja um aumento no salário mínimo. Então é necessária uma política para melhorar os salários e, simultaneamente, reduzir a desigualdade de renda. Uma possibilidade seria combinar a política de reajuste do salário mínimo com o fortalecimento dos sindicatos para negociar os salários para um conjunto mais amplo de trabalhadores e, assim, aumentar o salário médio
Abstract: Indonesia is a country that has heterogeneity in various aspects of life, including its resources, such as geographical, social, and economic factors. Employment in Indonesia is one of these interesting factors to be explored. The minimum wage is a very fundamental issue in employment. In Indonesia, the minimum wage issue is not only economic but also involves the political issues contained in employment laws. This study explores the minimum wage in Indonesia during several political eras: before 1980, in 1998, and 2010. Due to data limitations this study uses the selected data that satisfies the purposes of this research. Indonesia does not have a national minimum wage system yet. The evidence from this study suggests that different minimum wages exist in each province. The data examined in this study evaluates the minimum wages of four provinces in each of the West and East regions and five provinces of Central region of Indonesia, representing thirteen provinces out Indonesia¿s thirty-three, where, when combined, over seventy percent of the total population resides. Some employers allege that the yearly fixing of the provincial minimum wage forces them to limit hiring and reduce their workforce, hurting production levels. However, low wages prevent workers from having a dignified life. The author argues that fixing the minimum wage is necessary to respect the dignity of workers as human beings, as mandated by UUD 1945, the constitution of the Republic of Indonesia. The fixing minimum wage is not enough to solve the wages problem in general. It is need to improve the average wage in Indonesia. The improvement in the average wage should increase wage inequality, without an increase in the minimum wage. Then it is necessary a policy to improve wages and simultaneously reduce income inequality. One possibility would be to combine the policy of the minimum wage increase with the strengthening of unions to bargain wages for a broader set of workers and thus raise the average wage
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Kreuser, Mareesa-Antoinette. « Centralised bargaining as a minimum wage fixing mechanism ». Diss., University of Pretoria, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/40604.

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The purpose of this dissertation is to consider whether centralised bargaining, through bargaining councils, is a suitable mechanism for determining minimum wages in South Africa. In addressing this issue, the minimum wage fixing mechanisms currently available in South Africa, the impact they have on the labour markets and whether there is a need for reformation of our labour laws relating to the setting of minimum wages will be considered. The dissertation focuses on the various philosophical perspectives on labour law, the international development of collective labour law, international wage-fixing mechanisms and the development of South African labour law from the Industrial Conciliations Act 11 of 1924 to the current Labour Relations Act 66 of 1995. The current levels of collective bargaining available in South African, focusing on the establishment and functioning of bargaining councils, the extension of and exemption from collective agreements, as well as the use of collective bargaining to set minimum wages are discussed. The advantages and disadvantages of our current minimum wage fixing mechanisms are also discussed. For the purpose of comparison, reference is also made to wage fixing though sectoral determinations, although the focus of the dissertation is on collective labour law. In the international comparison, the development and functioning of the Australian and French wage-setting regulations are discussed, as well as policies that could be considered for application in South Africa. Collective bargaining, and in particular centralised collective bargaining, plays a significant role in South African labour law. Since South Africa does not have a national minimum wage, centralised bargaining remains the main form of fixing minimum wages, apart from sectoral determinations. In the conclusion and recommendations, possible solutions to the shortcomings in our centralised ii bargaining system, as well as alternative means of setting minimum wages are considered.
Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2013.
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Gerhardt, Klaus-Uwe. « Hartz plus Lohnsubventionen und Mindesteinkommen im Niedriglohnsektor ». Wiesbaden VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2671662&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Pratomo, Devanto Shasta. « The effects of changes in minium wage on wages, employment and hours worked in Indonesia ». Thesis, Lancaster University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.531720.

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Fung, Ka-po Karen, et 馮嘉寶. « The debate over minimum wage : the Hong Kong case ». Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38288941.

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Xue, Bai. « Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate Using Univariate Regressions ». Scholarship @ Claremont, 2016. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1355.

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This paper finds an insignificant negative correlation between youth employment and minimum wages for the panel of U.S. states, 1976-2015. Such a correlation is not observed in earlier panels. The source of the new results is traced to the greatest decline in employment-population ratio since the 1970s emerging during the financial crisis of 2008. Moreover, I discuss the likely causes of the recent sharp decline in employment-population ratio and propose that more factors should be taken into account when examining the effect of the minimum wage policy.

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Bullard, González Alfredo, et Requena Julio Gamero. « The minimum living wage and its impact on workers ». THĒMIS-Revista de Derecho, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/108398.

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The diverse discussions around the Minimum Living Wage have been very controversial and constant over the past decades due to the economic, social and political context inwhich Peru was immersed. However, these discussions have reduced its recurrence overthe past years as a result of various factors, such as the development of labor rights andimprovement of the economic situation.However, it is extremely relevant to understand the importance of the role of the Minimum Living Wage and the implications it may have over the workers. That is why in the present exposition there will be a presentation of the opposing positions regarding the impact–positive or negative– of the existence of a Minimum Living Wage on workers.
Las discusiones alrededor de la Remuneración Mínima Vital han sido muy polémicas yconstantes en las décadas pasadas debido alcontexto económico, social y político en el queel Perú se encontraba inmerso. Sin embargo, esas discusiones son cada vez menos recurrentes en la actualidad como resultado de la interacción de diversos factores, tales como eldesarrollo de los derechos laborales y la mejora de la situación económica.No obstante, es sumamente relevante entender la importancia del rol que tiene la Remuneración Mínima Vital y las implicancias de su fijación para los trabajadores. Es por ello que, en la presente exposición, se presentarán posiciones encontradas respecto al impacto –positivo o negativo– que la determinación de un salario mínimo puede tener en los trabajadores.

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Mayet, Natasha. « Minimum Wage Enforcement in South Africa Measurement and Determinants ». Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5742.

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The lack of compliance amongst employers with minimum wage legislation is a problem faced by many developing countries. South Africa is no exception, informal evidence suggesting that a large proportion of the employed in the country earn wages below the stipulated minima. This dissertation attempts to measure non-compliance or, in other words, 'violation' of employers in South Africa of minimum wage legislation, and to investigate the determinants of this violation. This study constitutes the first attempt to measure enforcement and compliance in South Africa. In order to measure the strength of government enforcement of minimum wages in South Africa, the number of labour inspectors is used as a proxy measure, while employer noncompliance, or violation, is measured using an approach developed by Kanbur (2007), referred to here as the 'Kanbur Index of Violation'. Derived from the Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (1984) poverty measures, this index is used to measure the share of violated workers receiving sub-minimum wages, as well as the depth of violation, namely, the average gap between the stipulated minima and the actual wage paid. This is the first attempt in the literature on minimum wage enforcement to use the methodology proposed by Kanbur (2007) for the measurement of violation. The estimates obtained for South Africa show that the sectors where violation is most prevalent include the Security, Taxi and Farming sectors. A multivariate analysis is employed, using standard OLS, probit, and quantile regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the probability of a worker being violated by their non-compliant employer, as well as of the depth and extent of the violation, that is, the shortfall of their wage from the minimum. Another innovation of this paper, in addition to the use of the Kanbur index as a measure of violation, is the introduction of a number of spatial/density variables, such as the log of workers per square kilometre, the density of labour inspectors in a District Council, and the unemployment density in the area. The construction of these variables was made possible by mapping the statutory minima, which are location specific, to the geographic units in the Labour Force Survey data for South Africa. The principal findings of this analysis are that violation is an outcome of a range of 8 variables, including individual, firm-level/contractual, sectoral, as well as spatial/density characteristics. A key marker of the probability of minimum wage violation and the depth of violation is the density of labour inspectors in the District Council where the worker is employed. Firm-specific characteristics such as firm size also play a leading role. The results from this dissertation carry important policy implications for minimum wage legislators in South Africa, especially regarding interventions around the enforcement of sectoral minima.

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Farren, Michael Diltz. « Bridging the Gap in the New Minimum Wage Research ». The Ohio State University, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1500330440581116.

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Damayanti, Maria Goreti Arie. « Studies on employment and minimum wage effect in Indonesia ». Kyoto University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/136044.

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Montialoux, Claire. « Essays on the redistributive effects of the minimum wage ». Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLG003/document.

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Cette thèse analyse les effets redistributifs du salaire minimum. Le premier chapitre montre que l’introduction du salaire minimum en 1967 dans un certain nombre de secteurs de l’économie qui en étaient exclus jusqu’alors peut expliquer plus de 20% de la réduction des inégalités entre Blancs et Noir-Américains dans les années 1960 et le début des années 1970 aux États-Unis – la seule période (depuis la seconde guerre mondiale) au cours de laquelle les inégalités raciales sur le marché du travail ont diminué. Cette réforme a eu un rôle aussi déterminant dans l’évolution des inégalités raciales que l’augmentation du nombre d’années d’études pour les Noir-Américains ou les lois contre la discrimination. Le deuxième chapitre de cette thèse est consacré à l’estimation de la transmission des augmentations de salaire minimum dans les prix des produits vendus dans les supermarchés américains.Une augmentation moyenne de 10% du salaire minimum se traduit par une augmentation de 0.2% dans les prix des supermarchés entre 2001 et 2012. Cette elasticité-prix est cohérente avec une tranmission de l’intégralité de l’augmentation des coûts du travail dans les prix de vente aux consommateurs. L’augmentation des prix des supermarchés réduit les gains de revenu nominaux liés à l’augmentation du salaire minimum entre de 3 à 12%, selon le niveau de revenu du ménage. Le troisième chapitre calibre un modèle du marché du travail qui permet de simuler les effets d’une augmentation du salaire minimum au niveau fédéral à $15 d’ici 2024 aux États-Unis. Il s’agit de comparer les niveaux d’emploi obtenus si la réforme est adoptée aux niveaux d’emploi obtenu si la réforme n’est pas adoptée, et ce, selon les valeurs d’une série d’élasticités bien identifiées
This dissertation studies the redistributive effects of minimum wage policies. The first chapter provides the first causal evidence of how the minimum wage has affected the historical evolution of racial inequality in the United States. It shows that the extension of the federal minimum wage to new sectors of the economy in 1967 can explain more than 20% of the decline in the racial earnings gap observed during the Civil Rights Era -- the only period of time (post World-War II) during which racial inequality fell in the United States. This effect is as large as previously studied policies and economic factors, such as the improvement in schooling for African-Americans or federal anti-discrimination policies. The second chapter estimates the pass-through of minimum wage increases into prices of US grocery stores, using high-frequency scanner level data. A 10% minimum wage hike translates into a 0.2% increase in grocery prices between 2001 and 2012. This magnitude is consistent with a full pass-through of cost increases into consumer prices. Depending on household income, grocery price increases offset between 3 and 12% of the nominal income gains. The third chapter estimates a calibrated labor market model to analyze the likely effects of a $15 federal minimum wage by 2024. It compares employment numbers if the policy were adopted to employment numbers if the policy had not been adopted using a wide range of well-identified elasticities

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Boula-Luap, Chantal. « Salaire minimum, inégalités salariales et croissance économique : le cas des Départements Français d’Amérique ». Thesis, Antilles, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017ANTI0145/document.

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Ce travail constitué de trois chapitres cherche à analyser l’impact du salaire minimum sur l’économie des départements français d’Amérique en se limitant aux effets sur la distribution des revenus et la croissance économique.Dans le premier chapitre, l’accent est mis sur les inégalités salariales telles qu’elles existent aux Antilles-Guyane, en comparaison avec la situation en France métropolitaine. Les inégalités de revenus restent fortes entre les catégories socioprofessionnelles dans les DFA. Le salaire moyen de l’ensemble des salariés de France métropolitaine est supérieur à celui des DFA.Le second chapitre présente tout d’abord les aspects historiques et réglementaires qui caractérisent le salaire minimum français et celui d’autres pays d’Europe. Le SMIC se classe en quatrième position parmi les salaires minimum les plus élevés d’Europe, et la France, le pays développé comptant la plus forte proportion de salariés au SMIC. Dans les Départements Français d’Amérique, les salariés payés au SMIC, bien plus nombreux en proportion qu’au niveau national, sont le plus souvent des femmes, des jeunes, des personnes peu qualifiées occupant un emploi à temps partiel dans les secteurs des services et du commerce. Il met également en évidence les effets du salaire minimum et de ses revalorisations sur la formation des salaires et le coût du travail. Les effets de diffusion du SMIC sont faibles et temporaires, variant de 0,1 à 0,2% tant en approche macroéconomique que microéconomique. Les hausses du SMIC entraînent une augmentation du coût du travail pour partie compensée par les allègements de charges octroyés aux entreprises.Le troisième chapitre contribue à la mise en lumière des interactions entre le salaire minimum, la croissance économique et la pauvreté dans la société Antillo-guyanaise. Il s’avère que le dynamisme de l’économie insulaire est loin d’avoir gommé tous les écarts de niveau de vie entre les DFA et la France métropolitaine, malgré l’alignement du salaire minimum et des prestations diverses. La simulation sur les données de l’enquête Budget de famille 2006 montre que la proportion de salariés au SMIC est faible dans le bas de l’échelle des revenus. Ces salariés sont répartis sur l’ensemble de l’échelle des niveaux de vie. Le SMIC occupe une place relativement importante dans le revenu disponible des ménages, y compris dans le haut de l’échelle des revenus.En conclusion, le niveau élevé du salaire minimum dans les départements français d’Amérique conduit au maintien d’un grand nombre de salariés payés au voisinage du SMIC. En dépit des allègements de cotisations sociales abaissant le coût du SMIC, les départements d’outre-mer demeurent des régions fortement touchées par le chômage et la pauvreté. De plus, les inégalités salariales se sont accrues entre les individus les plus modestes et les plus aisés de ces régions. La montée du chômage est un facteur aggravant de cet accroissement des inégalités. Si en effet, les résultats de notre étude permettent d’affirmer que le SMIC n’est pas le meilleur instrument pour lutter contre les inégalités salariales et la pauvreté, ils soulèvent en même temps la question d’un SMIC DOM en lien avec les conditions et capacités réelles des économies ultramarines
This work consists of three parts seeking to analyze the impact of minimum wages on the French departments of America's economy by limiting the effects on the distribution of incomes and economic growth.In the first chapter, the focus is an overview of income inequality as they exist in the Antilles and Guiana, in comparison with the situation in France. Income inequalities remain high between occupational groups in the DFA. The average salary of all employees in mainland France is higher than the DFAThe second chapter first presents the historical and regulatory aspects that characterize the French minimum wage and that of other European countries. SMIC is the fourth highest minimum wage in Europe, and France developed country with the highest proportion of employees the minimum wage. In the French Departments of America, employees paid the minimum wage, many more in proportion than at national level, are most often women, youth, low-skilled people employed part-time in the service sectors and trade. It also highlights the impact of the minimum wage and its revaluation on the formation of wages and labor costs. SMIC diffusion effects are small and temporary, varying from 0.1 to 0.2% in both macroeconomic and microeconomic approach. The increases in the minimum wage lead to higher labor costs partly offset by expense reductions granted to companies. The third chapter contributes to highlighting the interaction between the minimum wage, economic growth and poverty in the Antillean-Guyanese society. It turns out that the dynamism of the island economy has all but erased all living differentials between overseas departments and metropolitan France, despite the alignment of the minimum wage and various benefits. The simulation on data from the 2006 survey of “Budget of families” shows that the proportion of employees with the minimum wage is low in the bottom of the income scale. These employees are spread over the entire scale of living. SMIC has an important place in household disposable income, including the top of the income scale.In conclusion, the high level of the minimum wage in the French departments of America led to the maintenance of a large number of employees paid near the minimum wage. Despite cuts in social security contributions lowering the cost of SMIC, departments remain areas with high unemployment and poverty. Moreover, wage inequality increased between the poorest and the wealthiest individuals in these areas. Rising unemployment is an aggravating factor of the increase in inequality. Since the results of our study make it possible to affirm SMIC is not the best tool to fight again wage inequalities and poverty, they also raise the question of a SMIC DOM linked with the real conditions and capacities of the overseas economies

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黃佩嫻 et Pui-han Nerissa Wong. « An institutional analysis of minimum wage policy in Hong Kong ». Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2002. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31967085.

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Au, Yeung Sze-wan Swan, et 歐陽詩韻. « The feasibility of implementing : a minimum wage system in Hong Kong ». Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2005. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B45012301.

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Carrasco, Bruno. « Essays in appied theory of search and matching ». Thesis, University of Essex, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.242234.

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Ragacs, Christian. « Minimum wages, human capital, employment and growth ». Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 2002. http://epub.wu.ac.at/224/1/document.pdf.

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This paper deals with the effects of minimum wages on human capital accumulation, and steady state employment and growth. The minimum wage is introduced in a model of endogenous growth driven by human capital accumulation. Unemployed agents maximize utility given the information that they are unemployed facing changed budget constraints. This situation is implemented in a "non-market-clearing equilibrium" framework. We show that the steady state rate of growth is not affected by the minimum wage and that in the steady state the system yields full employment. These effects are generated by intertemporal adjustments of the employed households who re-act to the relatively higher minimum wage which increases skills accumulation. (author's abstract)
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Lam, Cheuk-ho Raymond, et 林焯豪. « Labor politics in Hong Kong : a case study on minimum wages legislation ». Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 2007. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B38283591.

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Brey, Yaseen. « Assessing the Impact of Minimum Wage on South Africa's Earnings distribution ». Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/29401.

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The topic of minimum wage has been of interest for a long time and particularly its potential in addressing wage inequality and ultimately improve the livelihoods of the most marginalized. South Africa has high prevalence of inequality and poverty and the minimum wage is touted as a potential mechanism to improve the lives of individuals at the bottom end of the wage distribution. The mainstay of analysis for minimum wage is the impact on employment. To this end, the paper will flesh out the history of minimum wages and contextualize them through their role in improving welfare. In February 2017, the National Economic Development and Labour Council, constituted out of representatives from business, labour and government, signed the national minimum wage agreement. This agreement outlines the basis for instituting a new national minimum wage no later than 1 May 2018. The proposed new minimum wage of R20 per hour is aimed to “improve the lives of the lowest paid workers and begin to address the challenge of wage inequality” (NEDLAC, 2017). Although many sectors are already at this level, significant increases in the private security and domestic workers sector will require a large increase to come up to parity. In terms of the political economy, the African National Congress (ANC) is undergoing significant grappling for power of South Africa’s ruling party. Although it cannot be seen as more than conjecture, it is nevertheless worthwhile to view the national minimum wage as more than just labour reform, but also a bargaining chip for political gain in the 2019 national elections.

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Paulson, Samantha Nicole. « Measuring the Effects of Minimum Wage on Higher Education Enrollment Rates ». Walsh University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=walshhonors1555620006120177.

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Oliveira, Alison Pablo de. « Choques no mercado de trabalho e a redução recente dos diferenciais salariais : um estudo das microrregiões brasileiras ». Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/12/12138/tde-24032016-125033/.

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Está dissertação apresenta uma análise dos mecanismos por trás do equilíbrio entre demanda e oferta por mão de obra qualificada no mercado de trabalho brasileiro. São estimados os impactos de choques exógenos ao mercado de trabalho como: (i) abertura comercial chinesa, (ii) política recente de valorização do salário mínimo e (iii) aumento da oferta de mão de obra qualificada sobre os diferenciais salariais dos trabalhadores de diferentes níveis educacionais - também conhecidos como prêmio da educação. Como estratégia metodológica, os dados dos Censos Demográficos de 2000 e 2010, foram agrupados para cada uma das 530 microrregiões brasileiras tornando possível a eliminação de possíveis vieses causados por fatores intrínsecos a cada uma das microrregiões. Além disso, também foram utilizados os dados de comércio internacional - entre Brasil/China e China/demais países - disponíveis na base da UN Comtrade. As importações e exportações foram agrupadas em setores e os respectivos choques distribuídos entre as microrregiões do país proporcionalmente à porcentagem da mão de obra de cada setor empregada no local. Os resultados encontrados mostram que, ao contrário do sendo comum, o boom comercial chinês não foi um dos principais determinantes da melhora recente da distribuição salarial no Brasil. Os modelos estimados apontaram para efeitos significativos do salário mínimo sobre o diferencial dos trabalhadores semiqualificados e do aumento da oferta de trabalhadores com ensino superior sobre os diferenciais salariais dos trabalhadores qualificados.
This thesis presents an analysis of the mechanisms behind the balance between supply and demand for skilled labor in the Brazilian labor market. Its estimated impacts of exogenous shocks to the labor market as: (i) Chinese trade boom, (ii) minimum wage valorization policy and (iii) the increase in skilled labor supply. As a methodological strategy, data from Demographic Census 2000 and 2010 were grouped for each of the 530 Brazilian micro-regions making it possible to eliminate biases caused by intrinsic factors of each of the micro-regions. Furthermore, the UN Comtrade international trade data were also used. Imports and exports were grouped into sectors and their shock distributed among the country\'s micro-regions in proportion to the percentage of the workforce employed in each sector in region. The results show that the China\'s trade boom is not a major determinant of the recent improvement of the wage distribution in Brazil. The estimated models pointed to significant effects of the minimum wage on the differential of semi-skilled workers and the increased supply of workers with higher education on the wage gap of skilled workers

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Ragacs, Christian. « Minimum Wages in Austria : Estimation of Employment Functions ». Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1993. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6295/1/WP_20.pdf.

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Minimum wages in Austria are bargaining results between labour unions and entrepreneurs. This paper analyses the empirical effects of minimum wages ("Kollektivvertragslöhne") on employment. "Employment functions", based on a "neo-classical" partial analytic framework, are estimated. The empirical analysis that is done for aggregated Austrian industry and specific branches at first sight seems to support the standard theoretical thesis. In addition, problems caused by the used method, which may occur in similar studies too, are shown. They give rise to the possibility that models of this kind are misspecified.
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Rangel, Marie-Teresa. « Estimating Penalties for Violating the Minimum Wage and Hiring Illegal Immigrants : The Case of the U.S. Apparel Manufacturing Industry ». Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35190.

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The U.S. apparel manufacturing industry includes many reputable firms, but is also believed to include many sweatshop operations. Sweatshop workers often work under sub-minimum wages, excessively long hours, and abusive management. Sweatshop establishments in the United States typically violate several U.S. labor laws. Two they commonly violate are the minimum wage under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 and the ban on hiring illegal immigrants under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. The purpose of the present research was to estimate minimum penalties that would provide no monetary incentive for the average U.S. apparel manufacturing firm to violate the minimum wage and the ban on hiring illegal immigrants. The minimum per-violation penalties that were estimated to deter violation of the minimum wage are 8 to 28 times the current maximum penalty of $1,000 per violation, and those estimated to deter the hiring of illegal immigrants are 3 to 10 times the current maximum penalty of $10,000 per violation. The estimated penalties are associated with annual probabilities of prosecution ranging from 5% to 15%. The estimated penalties primarily depend on the difference between legal and illegal wage rates. A sensitivity analysis indicated that the estimated penalties are insensitive to the value of the own-price elasticity of production labor demand, which is one of the variables used to calculate the penalties. The results suggest that current federal penalties for violating the minimum wage or the ban on hiring illegal immigrants do not deter infraction of these laws by U.S. apparel manufacturers.
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Ragacs, Christian. « Employment, productivity, output and minimum wage in Austria : a time series analysis ». Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1993. http://epub.wu.ac.at/6296/1/WP_21.pdf.

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This paper evaluates stylised facts for the Austrian industry. I execute a time series analysis for minimum wage, productivity, output and employment. Tests for cointegration and Granger-causality are done. The results are in contrast to most empirical studies that analyse the empirical effects of minimum wages on employment. Especially no negative impact of minimum wage on employment was found.
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Law, Anton, et Azeez Shittu. « How will Countries like Sweden Benefit or Suffer from a Minimum Wage ? » Thesis, Mälardalens högskola, Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mdh:diva-48887.

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Recently the European Union proposed a “Fair minimum wage initiative”. The proposal is to create a common framework across the EU 28 member countries. However, the Nordic countries have rejected the proposal. We investigate this issue through a literature review. We start with a presentation of empirical research on the effects of a minimum wage. In the theoretical analysis we use the simple classical monopsony model and the model with frictions in our examination of minimum wage effect on welfare and labour market participation. The conclusion is mixed concerning effects from an introduction of minimum wage, depending on how the countries adopt and implement the minimum wage. If the countries government implemented minimum wage correctly using specific industry minimum wage, there is clear evidence for a positive effect.

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Van, der Zee Kirsten. « Assessing the effects of two agricultural minimum wage shocks in South Africa ». Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/25504.

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In March of 2003, South Africa's first agricultural minimum wage was implemented. Ten years later, following major strikes and protests among farm workers in theWestern Cape, the prescribed agricultural minimum wage was increased by a considerable 52 percent from R69 per day to R105 per day, significantly more than the usual inflation rate increases. This paper investigates the impacts of these two minimum wage shocks, specifically assessing the labour market response in terms of employment, wages and working conditions, as well as assessing how farmers adjusted their operations in expectation of the minimum wage hike. The findings indicate that the probability of employment as a farm worker decreased in response to both minimum wage shocks, however the disemployment effect was sharper for the introduction of the minimum wage than it was for the 2013 amendment. It is observed that relatively more part-time workers lost their jobs in response to the first shock, resulting in there being almost no part-time workers in the sector by the time the second minimum wage shock occurred. Wages increased significantly in response to both minimum wage shocks, however despite this, violation consistently remained a challenge in the sector. Lastly, the paper finds that employment, wages and contract coverage began adjusting up to two quarters prior to the 2013 legislated increase in the minimum wage, suggesting that there are dynamic responses to minimum wages, and that farmers may make operational decisions in expectation of new legislation.

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Liu, Yulong. « Framing Minimum Wage Policy by the Democratic Presidential Administrations : Strategies and Ideologies ». Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/101658.

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Framing analyses have been among the most popular areas of research for scholars in political communication. Similarly, minimum wage legislation has been a popular topic for researchers in labor economics. However, few studies have used framing analysis to investigate the issue of minimum wage. This exploratory quantitative content analysis coded 45 variables in 236 lengthy press documents spanning 84 years of Democratic presidential administrations. More specifically, this study explored presence of generic frames, stakeholders, and ideological identities employed by Democratic presidential administrations since 1933. Results found that Democratic presidential administrations have been generally consistent in framing minimum wage policy. However, ideological discrepancies in Democratic presidents' actual framing practice were detected: a deepening pro-fairness attitude in specific frames and a growing pro-business empathy in stakeholder presence. The study concluded that framing minimum wage policy has become increasingly expressive: partisan identities transcend ideological positions. Democratic administrations generally maintain a single approach when highlighting minimum wage increase and endorse the Fair Labor Standards Act, albeit using different and even conflicting framing practices over time. To sustain the findings, this study suggests an equivalent study on Republican presidential administrations and their framing of minimum wage policy.
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Haven, Philippa. « Minimum Wage & ; the Informal Sector : Evidence from a Day Labor Center ». Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1018.

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Much debate surrounds the effect the minimum wage has on employment. Economic theory suggests that the minimum wage acts as a price floor in the labor market and thus leads to disemployment. However, empirical evidence from a variety of industries, states, and age groups suggests that the minimum wage has negative, negligible, and even positive effect on employment. This Economics/Public Policy Analysis thesis is the first study to analyze the effect the minimum wage has on employment in the informal sector. I apply four OLS regressions with various levels of specifications on five dependent variables: hourly wage, log hourly wages, hours worked, log daily income, and percentage working. My results suggest that economic theory holds true in the informal sector with regards to the California minimum wage mandate of 2016: the minimum wage had a positive and statistically significant effect on hourly wage, with average hourly wages increasing by $1.88; the minimum wage had a negative and statistically significant effect on percentage working, with average number of workers dispatched to jobs decreasing by 15%.

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Jansen, Per B. A. « A statistical and geographic analysis of wage theft in Hamilton County, Ohio ». University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1321650107.

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Zelenska, Tetyana. « Channels of Adjustment in Labor Markets : The 2007-2009 Federal Minimum Wage Increase ». Digital Archive @ GSU, 2011. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/econ_diss/70.

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In the debate on the economic effects of labor market regulation much work has focused on minimum wages. A legal minimum wage remains one of the most controversial policy issues. The controversy arises for two main reasons: first, there is no consensus over the economic impacts of the minimum wage mandate, especially its effect on employment, and, second, there is a disagreement over the empirical methods used to identify the minimum wage effects. Although the standard competitive model predicts that wage floors should have a negative impact on employment, empirical work shows mixed results. This dissertation explores a number of adjustment channels that can explain the paradox of the small and insignificant employment effects uncovered in the MW literature. Specifically, the economic impact of the most recent 2007-2009 Federal minimum wage increase (from $5.15 to $7.25 an hour) is analyzed using a sample of quick-service restaurants in Georgia and Alabama. In contrast to prior studies, store-level bi-weekly payroll records for individual employees are used, allowing greater precision in measuring the relative cost-impact of the MW on establishments. Despite significant variation in the cost-impact of the three-stage MW increase across establishments, regression analysis finds lack of a negative effect on employment and hours following each MW increase. Additional channels of adjustment are explored using unique data from manager surveys. Evidence suggests that higher product prices, lower profit margins, wage compression, reduced turnover and higher performance standards largely account for insignificant employment effects. These results are consistent with a number of alternative theoretical models of labor markets. An expanded version of the perfectly competitive model that incorporates additional margins of adjustment is also compatible with the reported findings.

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Economides, George, et Thomas Moutos. « Minimum Wages in the Presence of In-Kind Redistribution ». Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2017. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-226503.

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To many economists the public's support for the minimum wage (MW) institution is puzzling, since the MW is considered a "blunt instrument'' for redistribution. To delve deeper in this issue we build models in which workers are heterogeneous in ability. In the first model, the government does not engage in any type of redistributive policies - except for the payment of unemployment benefits; we find that the MW is preferred by the majority of workers (even when the unemployed receive very generous unemployment benefits). In the second model, the government engages in redistribution through the public provision of private goods. We show that (i) the introduction of a MW can be preferred by a majority of workers only if the unemployed receive benefits which are substantially below the after-tax earnings they would have had in the perfectly competitive case, (ii) for a given generosity of the unemployment benefit scheme, the maximum, politically viable, MW is lower than in the absence of in-kind redistribution, and (iii) the MW institution is politically viable only when there is a limited degree of in-kind redistribution. These findings can possibly explain why a well-developed social safety net in Scandinavia tends to co-exist with the absence of a national MW, whereas in Southern Europe the MW institution "complements'' the absence of a well-developed social safety net.

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Würzburg, Klaas. « Minimum wages and employment : a theoretical and empirical analysis / ». Hamburg : Kovač, 2009. http://d-nb.info/997221976/04.

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