This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and … relatively fewer hours before being separated. Among the young, however, both employment and hours are negatively affected …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with …

Despite the voluminous literature on minimum wages, there is little consensus on the mechanisms by which employment … might be affected. Using administrative data in a state-year panel, we evaluate employment dynamics directly. We find that … although the minimum wage does not appear to have strong short-run effects on the level of total employment, it significantly …

and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …

While there has been extensive research on the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages, there has been little …

minimum wage hikes on employment growth of teenagers in the food services and drinking places subsector. While most minimum … wage research focuses on employment levels, recent contributions highlight the importance of analyzing employment growth … minimum wage reduces employment growth for teenagers within this subsector. The findings suggest that the effects of minimum …

This study examines how employment and wages for men and women respond to changes in the minimum wage in India, a … of India's National Sample Survey Organization employment survey data for the period 1983–2008 merged with a newly …, without any employment losses. Minimum wage rates also increase the residual gender wage gap, which may be explained by weaker …

The effect of minimum wages on employment is highly disputed. The main questions in the literature are on how to deal … term effects. We find that these enriched models all suggest there are no economically significant negative employment …

employment and wages offered by Indonesian manufacturing firms from 1993 to 2006. It shows that the estimated effects of minimum … wage on employment are positive within a province (i.e., with province fixed effects), but negative within a firm (i …. It finds significant heterogeneous effects of minimum-wage changes on employment. The employment effects of minimum wages …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …