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Minimum Wages and Employment: Replication of Card and Krueger (1994) Using the CIC Estimator 最低工资与就业:卡和克鲁格(1994)使用CIC估计器的复制
Pub Date : 2010-04-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1586327
O. Ropponen
We employ the original Card and Krueger (1994) data and the CIC estimator to reexamine the evidence on the effect of minimum wages on employment. Our main finding is that the controversial result remains valid only for small fast-food restaurants. This finding is accompanied with a new possible explanation.
我们使用卡和克鲁格(1994)的原始数据和CIC估计器来重新检验最低工资对就业影响的证据。我们的主要发现是,这个有争议的结果只适用于小型快餐店。这一发现伴随着一种新的可能的解释。
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引用次数: 2
Legalization and the Economic Status of Immigrants 移民的合法化和经济地位
Pub Date : 2010-03-10 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1604230
S. Barcellos
This paper investigates the impact of legalization on the economic outcomes of the legalized population. It uses a natural experiment caused by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) which gave amnesty for undocumented immigrants who could prove continuous residence in the U.S. after January 1, 1982. The arbitrary cutoff date on the eligibility criteria causes a discontinuity in the relationship between the year of immigration and the probability of being legal. This paper uses this discontinuity to identify the causal impacts of legalization on immigrants’ outcomes. Regression discontinuity and difference-in-differences estimates show that immigrants eligible for the policy have a significantly higher probability of being naturalized citizens than those who were not. Legalization is also found to have a positive and significant effect on wages, a negative effect on the probability of working in a traditionally illegal occupation, and no significant effect on geographical mobility. The analysis for different demographic groups confirms such conclusions and shows that the estimated effects of legalization are larger for low-educated Latin American immigrants, the group that was disproportionably affected by the policy.
本文考察了合法化对合法化人口经济产出的影响。该研究采用了1986年《移民改革与控制法案》(IRCA)引发的一项自然实验,该法案对能够证明在1982年1月1日之后在美国持续居住的无证移民给予特赦。资格标准的任意截止日期导致移民年份与合法可能性之间关系的不连续性。本文利用这种不连续性来确定合法化对移民结果的因果影响。回归不连续和差中差估计表明,符合该政策的移民成为入籍公民的可能性明显高于那些没有入籍的移民。研究还发现,合法化对工资有积极而显著的影响,对从事传统非法职业的可能性有负面影响,对地域流动性没有显著影响。对不同人口群体的分析证实了这样的结论,并表明合法化对受教育程度较低的拉丁美洲移民的估计影响更大,这一群体受到该政策的不成比例的影响。
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引用次数: 29
Decreasing Wage Inequality in Italy: The Role of Supply and Demand for Education 减少意大利的工资不平等:教育供需的作用
Pub Date : 2010-02-05 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1548633
Paolo Naticchioni, A. Ricci
In this paper we show that wage inequality decreased in the Italian private sector, both in the upper and in the lower tail of the distribution, in the period 1993-2006. By applying a quantile decomposition procedure we find that the decrease of the 90/50 ratio is almost totally related to a negative coefficients component. As for the reduction of the 50/10 ratio, the quantile decomposition shows that it can be related to both the negative coefficients component and the residual component. We claim that that supply and demand for education have to be considered as the main explanation for the falling educational wage premia that represent the driving force of the falling 90/50 ratio. The reduction of the 50/10 ratio can be instead associated to the changes in the residual component -related to compositional effects-, to the changes in the occupation distribution and to changes in tax regimes.
在本文中,我们表明,在1993-2006年期间,意大利私营部门的工资不平等在分配的上端和下端都有所下降。通过应用分位数分解程序,我们发现90/50比率的降低几乎完全与负系数成分有关。对于50/10比率的降低,分位数分解表明,它既与负系数分量有关,也与残差分量有关。我们认为,教育的供给和需求必须被视为教育工资溢价下降的主要原因,而教育工资溢价的下降代表了90/50比率下降的驱动力。50/10比率的减少可以与与构成影响有关的剩余部分的变化、职业分布的变化和税制的变化有关。
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引用次数: 7
Can Workfare Serve as a Substitute for Weather Insurance? The Case of NREGA in Andhra Pradesh 工作福利可以代替天气保险吗?安得拉邦NREGA的案例
Pub Date : 2009-12-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1664160
Doug Johnson
The rural poor in developing countries have great difficulty in coping with adverse weather. In theory, workfare programs may serve as an important mechanism for allowing households to deal with the effects of weather related shocks. If participation in a workfare program is sufficiently flexible households in a village which suffers bad weather may compensate for the loss of income by increasing their participation in the program. If participation in a workfare program is not sufficiently flexible due to, for example, caps on overall participation at the local level, then the program will not allow households to compensate for the effects of a weather shock. We evaluate whether India’s new workfare program for rural areas, the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA), allowed households in one state to mitigate the effects of weather induced income shocks by looking at whether NREGA participation is responsive to changes in rainfall. We find that NREGA did allow households to mitigate the effects of weather induced income shocks. While we are unable to precisely identify the relationship between changes in income and participation in NREGA, we show that the relationship is strong enough to be practically significant.
发展中国家的农村贫困人口在应对恶劣天气方面有很大困难。从理论上讲,劳动福利计划可以作为一种重要的机制,使家庭能够应对与天气有关的冲击。如果参加劳动福利计划是足够灵活的,遭受恶劣天气的村庄的家庭可以通过增加参加该计划来补偿收入损失。如果由于地方层面的总体参与上限等原因,劳动福利计划的参与不够灵活,那么该计划将不允许家庭补偿天气冲击的影响。我们通过考察国家农村就业保障法(NREGA)的参与是否对降雨变化作出反应,来评估印度针对农村地区的新工作福利计划——《国家农村就业保障法》(NREGA)是否允许一个邦的家庭减轻天气引起的收入冲击的影响。我们发现,NREGA确实允许家庭减轻天气引起的收入冲击的影响。虽然我们无法准确地确定收入变化与NREGA参与之间的关系,但我们表明,这种关系足够强大,具有实际意义。
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引用次数: 33
Dynamic Labour Supply Effects of Childcare Subsidies: Evidence from a Canadian Natural Experiment on Low-Fee Universal Child Care 托儿补贴的动态劳动力供给效应:来自加拿大低费用普遍托儿自然实验的证据
Pub Date : 2009-10-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1279674
P. Lefèbvre, P. Merrigan, Matthieu Verstraete
This paper shows that a temporary incentive to join the labor market or to work more can also produce substantial life-cycle labor supply effects. On September 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Quebec, the second most populous province in Canada. Licensed and regulated providers of childcare services began offering day care spaces at the subsidized fee of $5 per day per child for children aged 4. In successive years, the government reduced the age requirement, created new childcare facilities and spaces, and paid for the additional costs entailed by this low-fee policy. No such important policy changes for preschool (including kindergarten) children were enacted in the nine other Canadian provinces over the years 1997 to 2004. Using annual data drawn from Statistics Canada's Survey on Labour and Income Dynamic and a difference-in-differences quasi experimental methodology, the paper estimates the dynamic labor supply effects of the program. The results demonstrate that the policy had long-term labor supply effects on mothers who benefited from the program when their child was less than 6. A striking feature of the results is that they are driven by changes in the labor supply of less educated mothers.
本文表明,加入劳动力市场或更多工作的临时激励也会产生实质性的生命周期劳动力供给效应。1997年9月,加拿大人口第二多的省魁北克省政府启动了一项新的儿童保育政策。持牌和受监管的托儿服务提供者开始为4岁儿童提供日托空间,每名儿童每天补贴5美元。在接下来的几年里,政府降低了年龄要求,建立了新的托儿设施和空间,并支付了这项低费用政策所带来的额外费用。从1997年到2004年,加拿大其他9个省对学龄前儿童(包括幼儿园)没有制定这样重要的政策变化。本文利用加拿大统计局劳动和收入动态调查的年度数据和差异中的差异准实验方法,估计了该计划的动态劳动力供应效应。结果表明,该政策对受益于该计划的母亲具有长期的劳动力供给效应,当她们的孩子小于6岁时。这些结果的一个显著特征是,它们是由受教育程度较低的母亲的劳动力供应变化所驱动的。
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引用次数: 132
Access to Learning Materials in South Africa: The Convergence of Developmental and Rights-Based Arguments for Access to Knowledge 南非学习材料的获取:发展和基于权利的知识获取论证的融合
Pub Date : 2009-08-16 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1455943
J. Jonker
Arguments for increasing access to knowledge have generally been concerned with rights. In the developing context, increased access to knowledge also has strong economic and developmental benefits. An emergent access to learning materials movement in South Africa has the opportunity to make use of both kinds of argument. The South African education system is currently deficient in several ways, and some of these deficiencies arise from lack of access to appropriate learning materials. This paper reviews some of the arguments put forward by the access to learning materials movement in favour of increasing access to knowledge and reforming the South African intellectual property law framework. These arguments and potential constitutional arguments for increasing access will be strengthened by the availability of empirical evidence about the economic benefits of alternative intellectual property policies. It is argued that further research of this nature should be undertaken.
增加获取知识的机会的争论通常与权利有关。在发展中国家,增加获取知识的机会也具有很强的经济和发展效益。南非新兴的获取学习材料运动有机会利用这两种论点。南非的教育制度目前在若干方面存在缺陷,其中一些缺陷是由于无法获得适当的学习材料造成的。本文回顾了“获取学习材料运动”提出的一些支持增加知识获取和改革南非知识产权法框架的论点。关于替代性知识产权政策的经济效益的经验证据的可用性,将加强这些论点和增加获取的潜在宪法论据。有人认为应该进行这种性质的进一步研究。
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引用次数: 1
A Law-in-Action Approach to Comparative Study of Repayment Forms of Consumer Bankruptcy 消费者破产偿还方式比较研究的行动法方法
Pub Date : 2009-08-07 DOI: 10.2139/SSRN.1116011
J. Braucher
This chapter proposes three criteria for comparative evaluation of repayment forms of consumer bankruptcy around the world: creditor repayment net of administrative costs, rates of discharge, and treatment (particularly as judged by whether debtors have debt problems again). It also argues that rational sorting reconciles these three goals to the extent possible. After marshalling available data from North America, Australia and Europe, the chapter concludes that repayment bankruptcy options in all these regions of the world appear to have high costs in relation to unsecured debt repayment and significant rates of failure to achieve a discharge. A glaring hole in our knowledge is whether repayment options treat the problem of overindebtedness or instead leave many debtors still struggling financially and perhaps in other ways, too. All systems seems to have sorting problems, with many low income debtors attempting and failing to complete plans, meaning they repay little or nothing but are nonetheless delayed in getting a discharge and in starting on the road to a sound financial future. Further empirical investigation is needed to evaluate systems in terms of results rather than aspirations, the essence of a law-in-action perspective.
本章提出了比较评价世界各地消费者破产还款形式的三个标准:扣除行政成本的债权人还款、清偿率和处理(特别是根据债务人是否再次出现债务问题来判断)。它还认为,理性排序在可能的范围内调和了这三个目标。在整理了北美、澳大利亚和欧洲的现有数据后,本章得出结论,在世界上所有这些地区,与无担保债务偿还和显著的失败率相关的还款破产选择似乎都有很高的成本。我们所知的一个明显漏洞是,还款选择是解决了过度负债问题,还是让许多债务人仍在财务上挣扎,或许还以其他方式挣扎。所有的系统似乎都存在分类问题,许多低收入债务人试图完成计划,但未能完成计划,这意味着他们很少或根本不偿还,但仍然推迟了出院,并开始了通往健康财务未来的道路。需要进一步的实证调查,以便根据结果而不是期望来评价制度,这是行动中的法律观点的本质。
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引用次数: 6
Global Law and Plunder: The Dark Side of the Rule of Law 全球法律与掠夺:法治的阴暗面
Pub Date : 2009-07-22 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1437530
U. Mattei, M. de Morpurgo
The 'rule of law' has traditionally been conceived as an intrinsically positive and politically neutral 'tool', universally valid and capable of being 'exported' everywhere. This paper - which represents a synthetic exposition of the ideas expressed in Ugo Mattei and Laura Nader, Plunder: When the Rule of Law is Illegal (Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008) - asserts that such an ambiguous concept has a bright and a dark side, the latter being excluded from any public discussion. The rhetoric of the 'rule of law' has been used by Western powers in order to justify interventions (mainly) into the 'developing' world, that ultimately turned into practices of plunder, allowing the expansion of Western economic power over the 'rest', thus backing a claim that the rule of law has been used 'illegally'. Intellectual myopia, ethnocentrism and imperial attitudes stand behind the conception of the rule of law that currently wraps international financial institutions - today’s global legislators - reform projects in the 'developing world'. The transformation of the concept of ‘law’ into that of a 'technicality', the globally dominant position enjoyed by U.S. law and the imperial attitude of today’s Western international corporate actors are some of the elements that show a pattern of continuity between colonialism and today's neo-liberal policy.
传统上,“法治”被认为是一种内在积极和政治中立的“工具”,普遍有效,能够“输出”到任何地方。本文综合阐述了Ugo Mattei和Laura Nader在《掠夺:当法治是非法的》(Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 2008)一书中所表达的观点,认为这种模棱两可的概念既有光明的一面,也有黑暗的一面,后者被排除在任何公开讨论之外。“法治”的修辞被西方列强用来为(主要是)对“发展中”世界的干预辩护,这最终变成了掠夺的做法,允许西方经济力量在“其他”国家的扩张,从而支持了法治被“非法”使用的说法。智力短视、种族中心主义和帝国主义态度是法治概念的背后,而法治概念目前正包裹着国际金融机构——今天的全球立法者——“发展中国家”的改革项目。“法律”概念向“技术性”概念的转变,美国法律享有的全球主导地位以及当今西方国际企业行动者的帝国主义态度,是显示殖民主义与当今新自由主义政策之间连续性模式的一些因素。
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引用次数: 3
Do International Labor Standards Contribute to the Persistence of the Child Labor Problem? 国际劳工标准导致童工问题持续存在吗?
Pub Date : 2009-06-01 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1554814
Matthias Doepke, Fabrizio Zilibotti
In recent years, a number of governments and consumer groups in rich countries have tried to discourage the use of child labor in poor countries through measures such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards. The purported objective of such measures is to reduce the incidence of child labor in developing countries and thereby improve children's welfare. In this paper, we examine the effects of such policies from a political-economy perspective. We show that these types of international action on child labor tend to lower domestic political support within developing countries for banning child labor. Hence, international labor standards and product boycotts may delay the ultimate eradication of child labor.
近年来,一些富裕国家的政府和消费者团体试图通过抵制产品和实施国际劳工标准等措施来阻止贫穷国家使用童工。这些措施的目的是减少发展中国家的童工现象,从而改善儿童的福利。在本文中,我们从政治经济学的角度考察了这些政策的效果。我们表明,这些关于童工的国际行动往往会降低发展中国家禁止童工的国内政治支持。因此,国际劳工标准和产品抵制可能会推迟最终消除童工。
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引用次数: 15
Caste and Wealth Inequality in India 印度的种姓和财富不平等
Pub Date : 2009-05-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1410660
Ajit Zacharias, V. Vakulabharanam
In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991–92 and 2002–03. According to our findings, the groups in India that are generally considered disadvantaged (known as Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes) have, as one would expect, substantially lower wealth than the "forward" caste groups, while the Other Backward Classes and non-Hindus occupy positions in the middle. Using the ANOGI decomposition technique, we estimate that between-caste inequality accounted for about 13 percent of overall wealth inequality in 2002–03, in part due to the considerable heterogeneity within the broadly defined caste groups. The stratification parameters indicate that the forward caste Hindus overlap little with the other caste groups, while the latter have significantly higher degrees of overlap with one another and with the overall population. Using this method, we are also able to comment on the emergence and strengthening of a "creamy layer," or relatively well-off group, among the disadvantaged castes, especially the Scheduled Tribes.
在本文中,我们利用1991-92年和2002-03年进行的具有全国代表性的家庭财富调查,进行了分析印度总体财富不平等与种姓划分之间关系的新颖练习。根据我们的发现,在印度,通常被认为处于不利地位的群体(被称为表列种姓或表列部落),正如人们所预料的那样,比“前进”种姓群体的财富要低得多,而其他落后阶级和非印度教徒则占据了中间的位置。使用ANOGI分解技术,我们估计在2002-03年,种姓之间的不平等约占总体财富不平等的13%,部分原因是由于广泛定义的种姓群体内部存在相当大的异质性。分层参数表明,前种姓印度教徒与其他种姓群体的重叠程度很小,而后者与其他种姓群体之间以及与总体人口的重叠程度明显更高。使用这种方法,我们还能够评论弱势种姓,特别是表列部落中“奶油层”或相对富裕群体的出现和加强。
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