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Remittances and Well-Being among Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China

Akay, Alpaslan; Giulietti, Corrado; Robalino, Juan D.; … - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2013

sending remittances and the utility of migrants, as proxied by their subjective well-being (SWB). Using data from a new survey … correlation. The estimates vary with the socio-economic characteristics of migrants, migration experience and the diversity of … evidence that both altruistic and contractual motivations are at work among rural-to-urban migrants in China. …

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Optimal Minimum Wage Policy in Competitive Labor Markets

Lee, David S.; Saez, Emmanuel - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

This paper provides a theoretical analysis of optimal minimum wage policy in a perfectly competitive labor market. We show that a binding minimum wage while leading to unemployment is nevertheless desirable if the government values redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment...

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Monopsony and Labor Supply in the Army and Navy

Asch, Beth; Heaton, Paul - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 2008

Because it is differentiated from other employers, the U.S. military enjoys some monopsony power. After reviewing existing estimates of the elasticity of labor supplied to the military, we obtain new estimates for the Army and Navy covering the period from 1998-2007. We employ a control function...

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