We develop a method to jointly measure the response of worker search effort (individual effect) and vacancy creation (market-level effect) to changes in the duration of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits. To implement this approach, we exploit an unexpected...
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In this Technical Annex, we provide details behind the two different approaches taken in the report to estimating the impact of the 2016 introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW) in the UK.
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In this Annex, we describe the analysis underlying the estimates in Charts 4.B and Chart 4.E for the seven states in the U.S. that have implemented high levels of minimum wages. The analysis here closely follows Cengiz, Dube, Lindner and Zipperer (2019), but...
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This report reviews the international evidence on the impacts of minimum wages, as well as recent research documenting the impact of the National Living Wage (NLW) in the UK, to inform the UK government’s decisions on the future remit of the Low Pay...
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This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005. This randomized trial offers a unique opportunity to examine the impact of training in developing countries. We use originally collected...
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This paper presents the results of a randomized controlled trial on the long-term impacts of a youth training program. The empirical analysis estimates labor market impacts six years after the training – including long-term labor market trajectories of young...
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