adverse employment effects, nor firm closure. Rather the margin of adjustment used to offset the sizable wage cost shock was a … wages rose in tandem with the higher adult minimum wage, but with no impact on their employment. Based on further empirical …

We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National … Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to evaluate the procyclicality of employment effect … and show that previous estimates may be biased due to failure to account for the local non-employment rate. Contrary to …

a new form of 'hybrid' (solo)self-employment that hinges on the borders of dependent and self-employment. In this study … in hybrid digital self-employment could augment individuals' skills and hence potentially act as a stepping stone towards …, such skill formation dividends are deficient for part-time hybrids who are mostly driven towards solo self-employment out …

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 …