Since its introduction, minimum wage has led to greater increases in average hourly wages and monthly earnings for … women than for men. The effects of minimum wage on the hourly wages of women and men affected by the minimum wage have been … similar on average. However, women are more frequently employed in the minimum wage sector than men and therefore benefit from …

time, the statutory minimum wage was increased twice in 2022 from 9.82 € to 10.45 € in July and to 12 € per hour in October … firms were affected by the minimum wage increases in 2022? How severely were these establishments affected by the war in …

This paper studies the effects of the minimum wage on the life cycle of firms. We first build a tractable model where … minimum wage hike not only shrinks young and low-productivity firms but also lowers incentives to innovate, resulting in lower … variation in exposure across establishments and municipalities to the large increase in the minimum wage between 1999 and 2010 …