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282 IZA Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1260

Strategic Wage Setting and Coordination Frictions with Multiple Applications

Pieter A. Gautier, José L. Moraga-González

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1160

Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

published in: Michigan Journal of International Law, 2004, 26(1), 245-269

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1159

The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

revised version published as 'The effects of multiple minimum wages throughout the labor market: The case of Costa Rica ' in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (3), 485-511

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1136

Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Sara Lemos

published in: B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy: Contributions to Economic Analysis and Policy, 2005, 4 (1), Art.16

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1135

The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Sara Lemos

published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2007, 26, 397-413

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1091

Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market

Dean R. Hyslop, Steven Stillman

published in: Labour Economics, 2007, 14 (2), 201-230

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1089

The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Sara Lemos

published as: 'Minimum Wage Effects in a Developing Country' in: Labour Economics, 2009, 16(2), 224-237.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1072

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices

Sara Lemos

published as: 'A Survey of the Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Journal of Economic Surveys, 2008, 22(1), 187-212.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1071

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Sara Lemos

published as: 'Anticipated Effects of the Minimum Wage on Prices' in: Applied Economics, 2006, 38(3), 325-337.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1070

Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Sara Lemos

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.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1069

A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil

Sara Lemos

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

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1064

Wage Effects on Immigrants from an Increase in the Minimum Wage Rate: An Analysis by Immigrant Industry Concentration

Kalena E. Cortes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1064

Wage Effects on Immigrants from an Increase in the Minimum Wage Rate: An Analysis by Immigrant Industry Concentration

Kalena E. Cortes

IZA Discussion Paper No. 1018

Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

T. H. Gindling, Katherine Terrell

published in: World Development, 2005, 33 (11), 1905-1921

IZA Discussion Paper No. 970

Fighting “Low Equilibria” by Doubling the Minimum Wage? Hungary’s Experiment

Gabor Kertesi, János Köllő

IZA Discussion Paper No. 949

Minimum Wage Effects on Labor Market Outcomes under Search with Bargaining

Christopher Flinn

IZA Discussion Paper No. 861

Inflation, Minimum Wage and Other Wages: An Econometric Study on French Macroeconomic Data

Yannick L'Horty, Christophe Rault

published in: Applied Economics, 2004, 36 (4), 277-290

IZA Discussion Paper No. 852

The Labor Market Effects of Payroll Taxes in a Middle-Income Country: Evidence from Colombia

Adriana Kugler, Maurice Kugler

published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2009, 57(2), 335-358.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 814

Measuring Labor Market Frictions: A Cross-Country Comparison

Geert Ridder, Gerard J. van den Berg

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2003, 1 (1), 224-244

IZA Discussion Paper No. 662

Getting It Right: Employment Subsidy or Minimum Wage?

Eric Strobl, Frank Walsh

revised version published as "Dealing with Monopsony Power: the Case for Employment Subsidies" in: Economics Letters, 2007, 94 (1), 83-89

IZA Discussion Paper No. 618

Oligopsony, Institutions and the Efficiency of General Training

Alison L. Booth, Marco Francesconi, Gylfi Zoega

published in: J. Messina, C. Michelacci, J. Turunen and G. Zoega (eds.), Proceedings of the 2004 ECB/CEPR Labour Market Workshop, Edward Elgar 2006

IZA Discussion Paper No. 609

Cognitive Ability and Paternalism

Gilles Saint-Paul

IZA Discussion Paper No. 595

Wiji Arulampalam, Alison L. Booth, Mark L. Bryan

summary of main results published in: Economic Journal, 2004, 114 (494), C87-C94

IZA Discussion Paper No. 544

Disentangling the Minimum Wage Puzzle: An Analysis of Worker Accessions and Separations

Pedro Portugal, Ana Rute Cardoso

published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2006, 4 (5), 988-1013. Reprinted in J. T. Addison (ed.) Recent Developments in Labor Economics, Vol. I, UK, 2007, 179-204

IZA Discussion Paper No. 454

Defensive Innovations

Winfried Koeniger

revised version published in: Berkeley Electronic Journal in Macroeconomics: Contributions to Macroeconomics, 2007, 7(1), Article 5

IZA Discussion Paper No. 241

Trade, Labor Market Rigidities, and Government-Financed Technological Change

Winfried Koeniger

IZA Discussion Paper No. 219

The Impact of Differential Payroll Tax Subsidies on Minimum Wage Employment

Francis Kramarz, Thomas Philippon

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 82 (1), 115-146

IZA Discussion Paper No. 203