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189 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12410
Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?
Charlie Brown, Daniel S. Hamermesh
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12388
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2017
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12369
What Do We Really Know about the Employment Effects of the UK's National Minimum Wage?
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Federico Zilio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12167
Understanding "Wage Theft": Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12167
Understanding "Wage Theft": Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12137
The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Ernest Boffy-Ramirez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12123
Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia
Suzana Laporsek, Peter F. Orazem, Matija Vodopivec, Milan Vodopivec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12043
The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany: An Overview
Marco Caliendo, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (3), 257-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12000
Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Research
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11999
The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns
David Neumark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11893
Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China
Yanan Li, Ravi Kanbur, Carl Lin
forthcoming in: Journal of Development Studies
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11867
Some (Maybe) Unpleasant Arithmetic in Minimum Wage Evaluations: The Role of Power, Significance and Sample Size
Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Sandra Schaffner, Marcus Tamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11828
Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France
Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, Vol. 55, 72-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11778
Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Anthony Edo, Hillel Rapoport
forthcoming in: Labour Economics.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11748
A Database on the Passage and Enactment of Recent State Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Duncan Hobbs, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11747
Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment
Mario Bossler, Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11728
Minimum Wages and Retirement
Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho
forthcoming in: ILR Review, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11632
Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland
Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond
revised verion published as 'The impact of a Minimum Wage increase on Temporary Worker Contracts' in: Fiscal Studies, First published: 02 April 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11585
Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
Duncan McVicar, Andrew Park, Seamus McGuinness
forthcoming in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11502
Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay: New Evidence from the UK and Ireland
Olivier Bargain, Karina Doorley, Philippe Van Kerm
forthcoming in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11474
Changing the Structure of Minimum Wages: Firm Adjustment and Wage Spillovers
Giulia Giupponi, Stephen Machin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11427
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2016
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11386
The Optimal Graduated Minimum Wage and Social Welfare
Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11297
People versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs
Grace Lordan, David Neumark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11247
Nature of the Relationship between Minimum Wage and the Shadow Economy Size: An Empirical Analysis for the Case of Romania
Adriana Anamaria Davidescu, Friedrich Schneider
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11246
The Short-Term Distributional Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11191
Probing the Effects of the Australian System of Minimum Wages on the Gender Wage Gap
Barbara Broadway, Roger Wilkins
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11190
The Short-Run Employment Effects of the German Minimum Wage Reform
Marco Caliendo, Alexandra Fedorets, Malte Preuß, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 53, 46-62.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10916
Minimum Wages and the Health of Hispanic Women
Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, Yang Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10782
High-Impact Minimum Wages and Heterogeneous Regions
Philipp Vom Berge, Hanna Frings
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10751
Consumer Loan Response to Permanent Labor Income Shocks: Evidence from a Major Minimum Wage Increase
Ibrahim Ethem Guney, Yavuz Selim Hacihasanoglu, Semih Tumen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10669
Wage Rigidities in Colombia: Measurement, Causes, and Policy Implications
Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala
published in: Journal of Policy Modeling, 2017, 39 (3), 547-567
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10665
Income Support Policies for the Working Poor
Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx, Gerlinde Verbist
Forthcoming in Lohmann, H. and I. Marx (eds) Handbook of Research on In-Work Poverty, Edward Elgar
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10572
Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Family Incomes
Arindrajit Dube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10511
The Dog That Barks Doesn't Bite: Coverage and Compliance of Sectoral Minimum Wages in Italy
Andrea Garnero
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2018
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10479
Do Minimum Wage Increases Influence Worker Health?
Brady P. Horn, J. Catherine Maclean, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10388
The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on Victorian Labour Markets
Andrew Seltzer, Jeff Borland
published in: Journal of Economic History, 2018, 78 (3), 785-821
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10332
How Does the Minimum Wage Affect Firm Investments in Fixed and Human Capital? Evidence from China
Tobias Haepp, Carl Lin
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2017, 21(4), 1057-1080
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10290
Understanding Wage Floor Setting in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France
Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10185
The Effects of Minimum Wages on the Health of Working Teenagers
Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, Yang Wang
forthcoming in: Applied Economics Letters
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10098
Minimum Wage Violation in Central and Eastern Europe
Karolina Goraus-Tanska, Piotr Lewandowski
published in: International Labour Review, 2019, 158(2), 297-336
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10039
Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health
George Wehby, Dhaval M. Dave, Robert Kaestner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9973
Disentangling the Wage Impacts of Offshoring on a Developing Country: Theory and Policy
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Devashish Mitra
revised version forthcoming as 'Consequences of Offshoring to Developing Nations: Labor-Market Outcomes, Welfare and Corrective Interventions' in: Economic Inquiry
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9962
Monopsonistic Competition, Low-Wage Labour Markets, and Minimum Wages: An Empirical Analysis
Ronald Bachmann, Hanna Frings
Applied Economics, 2017, 49 (51), 5268-5286
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9951
Workforce Composition, Productivity, and Labor Regulations in a Compensating Differentials Theory of Informality
Daniel Haanwinckel, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9914
Minimum Wages and Firm Value
Brian Bell, Stephen Machin
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2018, 36, 159-95
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9864
Federal Minimum Wage Hikes Do Reduce Teenage Employment: The Time Series Effects of Minimum Wages in the US Revisited
Stephen Bazen, Velayoudom Marimoutou
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9716
Determining Minimum Wages in China: Do Economic Factors Dominate?
Christian Dreger, Reinhold Kosfeld, Yanqun Zhang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9715
The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality: Evidence from China
Carl Lin, Myeong-Su Yun
published in: Research in Labor Economics (Income Inequality Around the World), 2016, 44, 179-212
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9589
The Effect of Doubling the Minimum Wage on Employment: Evidence from Russia
Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:6
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9576
The Optimal Minimum Wage with Regulatory Uncertainty
John Bennett, Ioana Chioveanu
published in: Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2017, 19 (6), 1099-1116
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9529
Policy Levers to Increase Jobs and Increase Income from Work after the Great Recession
David Neumark
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9528
Happy Birthday, You're Fired! The Effects of Age-Dependent Minimum Wage on Youth Employment Flows in the Netherlands
Jan Kabátek
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9460
Minimum Wages and Spatial Equilibrium: Theory and Evidence
Joan Monras
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9390
Stemming the Tide: What Have EU Countries Done to Support Low-Wage Workers in an Era of Downward Wage Pressures?
Sarah Marchal, Ive Marx
published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2018, 28 (1), 18 - 33
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9204
Minimum Wages in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Primer
Haroon Bhorat, Ravi Kanbur, Benjamin Stanwix
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8945
Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala
published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24 (1), 99-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8944
Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Arindrajit Dube, Ben Zipperer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8931
Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China
Chunbing Xing, Jianwei Xu
published in: IZA Journal of Labor and Development, 2016, 5:8
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8703
The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Match Stability
Mario Centeno, Claudia Duarte, Alvaro A. Novo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8601
Divided Opinion on The Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013: Random or Systematic Differences
Donal O'Neill
published in: Economics Letters, 2015, 136, 175-178
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8421
Career Wage Profiles and the Minimum Wage
Kerry L. Papps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8420
On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
John T. Addison, McKinley L. Blackburn, Chad Cotti
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 4, 1-16.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8419
Minimum Wage Systems and Earnings Inequalities: Does Institutional Diversity Matter?
Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann, Francois Rycx
published in: European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 21 (2), 115-130
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8418
Deserving Poor and the Desirability of a Minimum Wage
Tomer Blumkin, Leif Danziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8253
The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
T. H. Gindling, Nadwa Mossaad, Juan Diego Trejos
slightly revised version published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68(3), 666-707
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8252
The Minimum Wage from a Two-Sided Perspective
Alessio J. G. Brown, Christian Merkl, Dennis J. Snower
published in: Economics Letters, 2014, 124 (3), 389–391.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8220
Labour-Market Institutions and the Dispersion of Wage Earnings
Wiemer Salverda, Daniele Checchi
published in: A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds.): Handbook of Income Distribution, 2, 2015, 1535–1727
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8123
A Pareto-Improving Minimum Wage
Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger
published in: Economica, 2015, 82(326), 236–252
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7911
Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
Ximena Del Carpio, Julián Messina, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2019, 65(2), 358-382
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7878
Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions
Alexander Muravyev, Aleksey Oshchepkov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7813
Minimum Wages and Employment in China
Tony Fang, Carl Lin
published in: IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2015, 4:22, 1-30
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7809
What Do Labor Market Institutions Do?
Bertil Holmlund
published in: Labour Economics, 2014, 30, 62-69
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7674
Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?
Arindrajit Dube
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7638
Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
Sylvia Allegretto, Arindrajit Dube, Michael Reich, Ben Zipperer
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7502
Minimum Wage and the Average Wage in France: A Circular Relationship?
Gilbert Cette, Valérie Chouard, Gregory Verdugo
published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (3), 1832-1839
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7490
Youth Unemployment in Old Europe: The Polar Cases of France and Germany
Pierre Cahuc, Stéphane Carcillo, Ulf Rinne, Klaus F. Zimmermann
revised version published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:18 [Open Access]
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7351
Sharp Teeth or Empty Mouths? Revisiting the Minimum Wage Bite with Sectoral Data
Andrea Garnero, Stephan Kampelmann, Francois Rycx
published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2015, 53(4), 760–788
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7220
Minimum Wages and the Creation of Illegal Migration
Gil S. Epstein, Odelia Heizler (Cohen)
published in: Economics Bulletin, 2013, 33 (1), 434-441
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7166
Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate: Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?
David Neumark, J.M. Ian Salas, William Wascher
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7092
The Effect of Tip Credits on Earnings and Employment in the U.S. Restaurant Industry
William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
revised version published as "The Effect of the Tipped Minimum Wage on Employees in the U.S. Restaurant Industry" in: Southern Economic Journal, 2014, 80 (3), 633-655
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7047
The Minimum Wage Affects Them All: Evidence on Employment Spillovers in the Roofing Sector
Bodo Aretz, Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory
published in: German Economic Review, 2013, 14 (3), 282-315.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6892
Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany
Christian Bredemeier, Falko Juessen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6760
Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Ronald Bachmann, Marion König, Sandra Schaffner
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6682
Sharpening the Effectiveness of Natural Experiments as an Analytical Tool
Harriet Duleep
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6510
Mind the Gap: Net Incomes of Minimum Wage Workers in the EU and the US
Ive Marx, Sarah Marchal, Brian Nolan
published in Marx, I. and K. Nelson (eds.), Minimum Income Protection in Flux, Palgrave MacMillan, 2012, pp. 54-80
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6498
Distortions in the International Migrant Labor Market: Evidence from Filipino Migration and Wage Responses to Destination Country Economic Shocks
David McKenzie, Caroline Theoharides, Dean Yang
published in: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2014, 6(2), 49-75.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6484
Minimum Wages as a Barrier to Entry: Evidence from Germany
Ronald Bachmann, Thomas K. Bauer, Hanna Kroeger
published in: Labour, 2014, 28 (3), 338-357
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6370
Minimum Wage, Fringe Benefits, Overtime Payments and the Gender Wage Gap
João Cerejeira, Kemal Kızılca, Miguel Portela, Carla Sá
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6269
Less Myth, More Measurement: Decomposing Excess Returns from the 1989 Minimum Wage Hike
Carl Lin
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6237
Decomposing Excess Returns in Stochastic Linear Models
Carl Lin
revised version published in: Economics Letters, 2013, 118(1), 143-147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6228
Tax Evasion, Minimum Wage Non-Compliance and Informality
Arnab K. Basu, Nancy H. Chau, Zahra Siddique
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2012, 34, 1-53
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6214
The Effects of Social Security Taxes and Minimum Wages on Employment: Evidence from Turkey
Kerry L. Papps
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012, 65 (3), 686-707
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6132
Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
Barry Hirsch, Bruce E. Kaufman, Tetyana Zelenska
revised version published in: Industrial Relations, 2015, 54 (2), 188-239
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6036
Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances
John T. Addison, McKinley L. Blackburn, Chad Cotti
revised version published as 'Minimum wage increases in a recessionary environment' in: Labour Economics, 2013, 23, 30-39
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6023
Severance Packages
Fabien Postel-Vinay, Hélène Turon
published as 'The Impact of Firing Restrictions on Labour Market Equilibrium in the Presence of On-the-job Search' in: Economic Journal, 2014, 124 (575), 31-61.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5942
Underreporting of Earnings and the Minimum Wage Spike
Mirco Tonin
published in: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies, 2013, 2:2
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5933
Minimum Wages and Teen Employment: A Spatial Panel Approach
Charlene M. Kalenkoski, Donald J. Lacombe
published in: Papers in Regional Science, 2013, 92 (2), 407-417
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5835
Wage Rigidity, Collective Bargaining and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from French Agreement Data
Sanvi Avouyi-Dovi, Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, 95 (4), 1337-1351
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5811
Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects
Arindrajit Dube, T. William Lester, Michael Reich
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