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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 … industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As … possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the benefit replacement ratio, employment protection and the collective …

effective minimum wage reduced employment among low-skilled, middle-aged female workers, but the mechanical effect associated …

wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment and earnings in the U.S. restaurant … industry. Using data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and the Current Population Survey, we find that a … reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry and for …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …