wages and employment using data based only on the observed cross-sectional distribution of wages. They, and others who have … used this method, have generally found that the minimum wage causes substantial losses in employment. In this paper we …

employment came undone; on balance, however, the recent estimates seem if anything smaller than those suggested by the earlier …

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 …

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 …

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate on whether the new statutory minimum wage has had negative employment effects …

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 …

across jobs. While we find that the national minimum wage raised earnings but did not lower employment for both job types at …

-paid workers. While past studies have suggested relatively benign effects of UK minimum wage policy on employment levels, our … findings suggest that this also applies to employment dynamics and the aggregate reallocation of workers across firms. …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … employment. These decisions are strongly interrelated: Firms that increased prices relatively more often also showed a less … negative employment response. The relative importance of both adjustment margins is associated with product market competition …