Nearly one-third of all American workers are paid very low wages, the highest rate among wealthy nations. An incidence … since the mid-1990s, French unemployment and employment rates show stability or improvement as well as strong convergence to … worsening employment opportunities for vulnerable workers. Making work pay for the bottom third of the workforce should be a top …

This paper examines the effects of collectively agreed increases in real minimum wages on employment transitions and …. Labour-labour substitution seems to be important, since increases in minimum wages promote employment among workers with … real minimum wages are associated with more separations, whereas hours are less affected because separated workers put in …

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 … on the impact on firm performance, prices, and quality. Exploiting the staggered changes in minimum wages in the US over … wages are in states without right-to-work regulation; suggesting the need for a more comprehensive approach to labor market …

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 … impact of minimum wages on inexperienced workers. Using a distributed-lag model, the results show that an increase in a …