A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of … the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many … to represent the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage on wages or employment. Second, different minimum wage …

It is well established in the international literature that minimum wage increases compress the wages distribution …. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing profits, or raising prices. While there are … hundreds of studies on the employment effect of the minimum wage, there is less than a handful studies on its profit effects …

employment effects, accounting for sorting into the formal and informal sectors. The data used is a monthly Brazilian household … survey from 1982 to 2000 at individual and regional levels. The formal and informal sectors employment effects were both …

study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … wage are summarized in a “menu” of minimum wage variables and used to estimate wage and employment effects. (2) An … employment decomposition that separately estimates the effect of the minimum wage on hours worked and on the number of jobs is …

contribution to the controversial recent debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect …. Employment might not be affected if firms are able to pass through to prices the higher labour costs associated to a minimum wage …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …

direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical … wage and employment. This paper estimates the employment effect of the minimum wage using a number of political variables … indicate that an increase in the minimum wage has very small adverse effects on employment. …

applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have … small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime …

and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …