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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP12539 |
DP12539 Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity | |
Claus Thustrup Kreiner; Daniel Reck; Peer Ebbesen Skov | |
发表日期 | 2017-12-24 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | We estimate the impact of youth minimum wages on youth employment by exploiting a large discontinuity in Danish minimum wage rules at age 18, using monthly payroll records for the Danish population. The hourly wage jumps up by 40 percent at the discontinuity. Employment falls by 33 percent and total input of hours decreases by 45 percent, leaving the aggregate wage payment almost unchanged. We show theoretically how the discontinuity may be exploited to evaluate policy changes. The relevant elasticity for evaluating the effect on youth employment of changes in their minimum wage is in the range 0.6-1.1. |
主题 | Labour Economics ; Public Economics |
关键词 | Minimum wage policy Employment Regression discontinuity design |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12539-0 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541350 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Claus Thustrup Kreiner,Daniel Reck,Peer Ebbesen Skov. DP12539 Do Lower Minimum Wages for Young Workers Raise their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity. 2017. |
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