Kawaguchi, Daiji; Mori, Yuko - 2021
We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of … indexation of the local minimum wage to the local cost of living. The revision of the Minimum Wage Act in 2007 of Japan … essentially required the government to set the minimum wage indexed to the local cost of living, with a five-year moratorium …