Presents a theoretical approach to analysing the effects of minimum wages on employment which is intended to conform … effects of minimum wages on employment. The model has the desirable property of not only allowing for the negative effect … pieces of work. Examines the employment effects of the industry‐level system of minimum wages which operated in the UK until …

Recent studies of the French experience find a small, negative impact of the minimum wage on young persons′ employment … initially aimed simply to update previous work. However, the employment series for young persons has been revised in a non …

Examines the employment effects of minimum wage regulation on Greek manufacturing for the period 1962‐87. The empirical …. Second, estimates labour demand equations for the two types of labour to derive the employment elasticities with respect to … the corresponding average wage. Finally, provides estimates on the employment effects of the minimum wage by combining the …

. Analyses the employment effects of lowering youth minimum wages. Looks at macro and micro evidence. At the macro level, does … not find convincing evidence of negative effects of youth minimum wages on youth employment. Constructs a micro model in …. The model is estimated with data from 1984 and 1987. Finds significant minimum wage elasticities of employment and …

The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of … to evaluate to what extent its effects on employment seem to have been comparable to those known for market economies. In … order to go further than the measure of direct effects on employment, estimates and simulates a small‐scale macro …

this, a national general minimum floor to wages and other terms and conditions of employment are necessary.  …