Full wages, part-time employment and the minimum wage

Ressler, Rand W.; Watson, John Keith; Mixon, Franklin G.

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“…For example, US employers are allowed to offer less favourable fringe benefits to part‐time workers. This makes part‐time workers attractive to these employers: Ressler et al . (1996) show that US employers increased their demand for part‐time workers in reaction to minimum wage increases to cut wage costs, whereas Buchmueller (1999) shows that US employers that offer generous fringe benefits make greater use of low‐wage part‐time workers.…”

Section: Factors Of Labour Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining the Growth of Part‐time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Euwals

Hogerbrugge

2006

Labour

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Section: Factors Of Labour Demandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Explaining the Growth of Part‐time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Euwals

Hogerbrugge

2006

Labour

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“…This finding that the minimum wage can produce even larger adverse effects on employment in developing countries is echoed by the research of minimum wage impacts in various Latin American countries done by Maloney and Mendez (2003). Ressler, Watson, and Mixon (1996) showed that a focus on the employment effects of higher minimum wages may obscure the effect of such mandates on hours worked. Their findings suggest that the response of employers to higher minimum wages may be to reduce the hours worked of teenagers.…”

Section: Minimum Wages: Empirical Studiesmentioning

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Sweatshops: Kant and Consequences

Sollars¹,

Englander²

2007

Bus Ethics Q

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ABSTRACT:Arnold and Bowie (2003) attempt to derive ethical constraints on the actions of the managers of multinational enterprises (MNEs), or the MNEs themselves, from a Kantian perspective. We contest Arnold and Bowie's claims regarding MNE duties, in particular that MNEs have a duty to pay a subsistence wage above market levels. We conclude that even within Arnold and Bowie's Kantian framework such a duty does not properly emerge. In addition, we argue that the account of coercion used by Arnold and Bowie does not serve their purposes. Arnold and Bowie address consequentialist issues by arguing that their conclusions are not undercut by economic considerations regarding unemployment. We argue that Arnold and Bowie have misread the economic literature in this regard.

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“…Moreover, some workers may be so discouraged by diminished employment chances that they exit the labor force (and are not counted as officially unemployed). Also complicating the analysis is that firms may reallocate their shares of full-and part-time labor (Ressler et al 1996) such that employment changes do not accurately reflect actual changes in total labor inputs (Welch 1995). Finally, firms may substitute more-skilled labor for less-skilled labor (e.g., adults for teens).…”

Section: The Minimum Wage and The Teen Labor Marketmentioning

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Are Teen Unemployment Rates Influenced by State Minimum Wage Laws?

Partridge

1998

Growth and Change

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Several recent studies have challenged the conventional notion that raising the minimum wage has negative labor market consequences. In particular, most recent minimum wage research has considered teen employment, with virtually no examination of unemployment rates. Given the conflicting findings in the recent literature, this study reconsiders this issue by examining the minimum wage's influence on teen unemployment rates. The empirical analysis considers state data from the latter 1980s, a unique period where many states raised their minimum wage above the federal level. The results suggest that both a greater minimum wage rate and greater minimum wage coverage increase teen unemployment rates. Further evidence suggests that employment declines outweigh teen labor force reductions, suggesting that increases in unemployment are primarily caused by labor demand shifts. Thus, policy makers should weigh these costs in deciding future minimum wage hikes.

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Full wages, part-time employment and the minimum wage

Cited by 16 publications

References 11 publications

Explaining the Growth of Part‐time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Explaining the Growth of Part‐time Employment: Factors of Supply and Demand

Sweatshops: Kant and Consequences

Are Teen Unemployment Rates Influenced by State Minimum Wage Laws?

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