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Minimum wage increases in a soft US economy

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011

Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of straightened economic circumstances produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically reported in the new economics of the minimum wage? The present paper augments the sparse literature covering the very latest...

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Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage Over the Medium-Term

Dolton, Peter - 2010

This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the decade since its introduction in 1999. Identification is facilitated by using variation in the bite of the NMW across local labour markets and the different sized year on year up...

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Minimum Wage Increases Under Straightened Circumstances

Addison, John T. - 2011

Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three...

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Asymmetric Information Renders Minimum Wages Less Harmful

Schöb, Ronnie - 2009

We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information

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Employment Effects of Minimum Wages in Inflexible Labor Markets

Ozturk, Orgul D. - 2008

reduction in employment among low productivity workers but also shifts the distribution of hours for the available jobs in the … market, resulting in scarcity of part-time jobs. Thus, for sufficiently high employment costs, a minimum wage makes it less … using survey data from Turkey. I find significant reduction in employment due to the loss of part time jobs caused by the …

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Do Lower Minimum Wages for Younger Workers Raise Their Employment? Evidence from a Danish Discontinuity

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2018

We estimate the impact of youth minimum wages on youth employment by exploiting a large discontinuity in Danish minimum wage rules at age 18, using monthly payroll records for the Danish population. The hourly wage jumps up by 40 percent at the discontinuity. Employment falls by 33 percent and...

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Optimal Design and Quantitative Evaluation of the Minimum Wage

Mahone, Zachary L. - 2017

We study a labor market where firm have private information about their ex-ante heterogeneous productivities and search is random. In this environment, a binding minimum wage can be efficiency-enhancing -- we show that setting it using a version of the Vickery-Clarke-Groves mechanism delivers...

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How Do Small Businesses Pay for a Minimum Wage Increase?

Everett, Craig R. - 2014

The impact of changes in the minimum wage on employment is a politically charged topic that has been researched extensively. This paper analyzes what small business owners intend to do in the short term to pay for such an increase in labor costs. Since there are multiple ways a business can...

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Effects of the Minimum Wage on Infant Health

Wehby, George - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

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Minimum Wages, Minimum Labour Costs and the Tax Treatment of Low-Wage Employment

Immervoll, Herwig - 2021

of taxation on both labour costs and the net income of employees. This paper presents estimates of the tax burdens facing …

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