adverse employment effects, nor firm closure. Rather the margin of adjustment used to offset the sizable wage cost shock was a … wages rose in tandem with the higher adult minimum wage, but with no impact on their employment. Based on further empirical …

China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We …

careful analysis of the set of policies that interfere with low-wage employment. …

a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of dependent and self-employment. In this study … in hybrid digital self-employment could augment individuals' skills and hence potentially act as a stepping stone towards …, such skill formation dividends are deficient for part-time hybrids who are mostly driven towards solo self-employment out …

detrimental effect on employment. This research has directly influenced, through the Low Pay Commission, the conduct of policy … hypothesis, without attention to the range of (positive or negative) impacts on employment that are consistent with the data. In … of employment effects the data can and cannot rule out. We find that the data are consistent with both large negative and …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …

A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this … relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate … employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …

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