This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …

import competition experienced slower growth in manufacturing wages and in-migration rates between 2000 and 2010, and greater …

have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …

wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …

sizeable 'gender gaps' in employment and wages. Certain factors help to explain a good part of gender gaps, including caring … changes have focused on supporting family-friendly employment for both men and women, including improvements in childcare …

This paper studies the dynamics of labour demand and the determinants of employment rates across the OECD. We find: (i …) labour demand adjusts less rapidly when employment protection is more strict and union density is higher; (ii) there is no … evidence that overall job turnover is influenced by employment protection; (iii) union density and coverage are negatively …

This paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and … relative wages increase with competition using a large panel of United Kingdom workers with complete work histories. I identify …

structure of wages. Ceteris paribus, a higher share of employees in a firm covered by industry-wide or firm-level contracts is … associated with higher wages. Yet, individual bargaining coverage in a covered firm shows a negative impact both on the wage …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that …

analyze wage distributions for various labor market subgroups by means of kernel density estimation, variance decompositions … wage brackets which would operate as minimum wages for different groups of workers. …