and thereby increase their income from employment. We find that these reforms led to an average increase in the hours … income of between 8 and 12 percent, and an increase of between 20 and 29 percent in earnings from employment. Finally, the …

per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …

This paper examines employment and hours impacts of the 1999 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the … impacts of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours worked using difference-in-differences. We find a small decrease in the … employment rate of 22-59/64 year olds in NI, of up to two percentage points, in the year following the introduction of the NMW …