effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages, which provides a convenient way of re-scaling the wage distribution … to control for possible employment effects. We find that minimum wage increases do not result in an abnormal … concentration of Job Leavers below the new minimum wage, which is inconsistent with employment effects predicted by a neoclassical …

I consider the case for the minimum wage alongside (optimal) income taxes when workers differ in both wages and working … hours, such that a given level of income corresponds to multiple wage rates. The minimum wage is directly targeted at the …. This renders the minimum wage unambiguously desirable in a discrete-type model of the labor market. Desirability of the …

Purpose This paper aims to examine the employment effect of the minimum wage in Mauritius, a country that has recently … introduced an economy-wide national minimum wage. As women have low labor force participation rate and higher unemployment rate … compared to men, this study sheds light on the impact of the national minimum wage on male and female employment. Design …

monthly salaries, thus widening wage inequality between migrants and natives …This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and … from a minimum wage. We combine a “differential trend adjusted difference-in-differences estimator” (DTADD) and descriptive …

for the Conservative Party. As far as tolerance for high incomes is related to tolerance of inequality, our results may … present evidence of this attitude in the UK by exploiting the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW), which …

. Stabilizing their baseline income can make workers more tolerant of inequality. We present evidence of this attitude in the UK by … Survey, we show that workers that benefited from the NMW program became relatively more tolerant of inequality and more … exploiting the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW), which institutionally set a baseline pay reducing the risk of …

Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this … in the bite of the national minimum wage across local labor markets and over time. We find evidence that the MW has a …