On the 1st of January 2016 the Irish National Minimum Wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour, an increase of … approximately six percent. We use a difference-in-differences estimator to evaluate whether the change in the minimum wage affected … the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of minimum wage workers. The results indicate that the increase in the minimum …

This paper examines employment and hours impacts of the 1999 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the … 2016 introduction of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in Northern Ireland (NI). NI is the only part of the UK with a land … the border (Republic of Ireland). This discontinuity in minimum wage coverage enables a research design that estimates the …

A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …

We use distributional regression analysis to study the impact of a six percent increase in the Irish minimum wage on … the distribution of hourly wages and household income. Wage inequality, measured by the ratio of wages in the 90th and 10 … 90th and 10th percentiles. The results point towards wage spillover effects up to the 30th percentile of the wage …

at least for Australia, but the wage penalty associated with overskilling increases with education. Although the general …

This paper examines the incidence and wage effects of over-skilling within the Australianlabour market. It finds that …

suffer the highest overskilling wage penalty, offers an alternative and useful perspective to compare the attributes of …

part simply represent a compensating wage differential for positive job attributes, while for men at least there are real …

minimum wage. Compared to existing work, this allows us to more precisely identify sub-minimum wage workers. We find that 5 ….6 percent of minimum wage workers are paid below the minimum wage for reasons other than those permitted under legislation. This …