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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009
wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects … of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the minimum wage on the prices of UK goods and services, comparing the … prices of goods produced by industries in which UK minimum wage workers make up a substantial share of total costs with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900009
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Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?
Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2009
wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects … of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the minimum wage on the prices of UK goods and services, comparing the … prices of goods produced by industries in which UK minimum wage workers make up a substantial share of total costs with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155561
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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978325
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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - In: IZA journal of labor policy 5 (2016) 6, pp. 1-38
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011446600
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The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation : Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019
Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870388
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The dynamics of the national minimum wage : transitions between different labour market states
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - 2005
An important policy issue is whether the National Minimum Wage (NMW) introduced in Britain in April 1999, is a stepping stone to higher wages or traps workers in a low-wage no-wage cycle. In this paper we utilise the longitudinal element of the Labour Force Survey over the period 1999 to 2003 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003035516
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The Dynamics of the National Minimum Wage : Transitions between Different Labour Market States
Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Murphy, Philip D.; … - 2021
An important policy issue is whether the National Minimum Wage (NMW) introduced in Britain in April 1999, is a stepping stone to higher wages or traps workers in a low-wage - no-wage cycle. In this paper we utilise the longitudinal element of the Labour Force Survey over the period 1999 to 2003...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318365
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The minimum wage from a two-sided perspective
Brown, Alessio J. G.; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369825
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Policy levers to increase jobs and increase income from work after the Great Recession
Neumark, David - 2015
The depth of the Great Recession, the slow recovery of job creation, the downward trend in labor force participation, high long-term unemployment, stagnant or declining wages for low-to-medium skill jobs owing to adverse labor demand shifts, and a greater rebound in low-wage than mid- or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388328
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Did the national minimum wage affect UK prices?
Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices …. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on the prices of UK goods and services by comparing prices of goods … produced by industries in which UK minimum wage workers make up a substantial share of total costs with prices of goods and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884638