...Yihong Bai; Chungah Kim; Antony Chum On the other hand, a UK study that examined the impact of the National Minimum Wage policy in 1999, using panel data, found a nonsignificant reduction in the likelihood of drinking among low-educated workers ²⁶ . However, the nonsignificant results...

... is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact [email protected] Abstract This paper investigates whether minimum wage policy played any significant role in poverty reduction in Java Island, Indonesia, between 2002 and 2014. Its...

...José Azar; Emiliano Huet-Vaughn; Ioana Marinescu; Bledi Taska; Till von Wachter Many papers document the employment effect of the minimum wage ( Neumark and Wascher, 1992 ; Card and Krueger, 1994 ; Dube et al., 2010 ; Meer and West, 2016 ; Jardim et al., 2018 ; Cengiz et...

... that more productive firms are also more skill intensive. Firms decide first whether to comply with labour regulations and then, at each moment, how many skilled and unskilled vacancies to post. By not complying with regulations, firms avoid payroll taxes and are not subject to the minimum wage. Instead...

... University Press ; 2019 . 7. Belman D , Wolfson PJ . What Does the Minimum Wage Do? Kalamazoo, MI : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research ; 2014 . 8. Leigh JP , Leigh WA , Du J . Minimum wages and public health: a literature review . Prev Med...

...:https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract States adopt minimum wages to improve workers’ economic circumstances and well-being. Many studies, but not all, find evidence of health benefits from higher minimum wages. This study used a rigorous “triple...

... Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Abstract The large regional variation in minimum wage levels during the period 2002–8 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks...

...Haroon Bhorat; Aalia Cassim; Ravi Kanbur; Benjamin Stanwix; Derek Yu The sectoral determination process provides the statutory avenue for setting minimum wages in South Africa. The Minister of Labour, following a process of research and consultation that involves employers, employees...

...Marcus Dittrich; Andreas Knabe; Kristina Leipold minimum wage bargaining labor market experiments Evaluating the social consequences of minimum wages is a central concern in labor economics. Whether a minimum wage should be introduced or increased is a much debated question. A recurring issue...

..., entitled Minimum Wage Legislation, Enforcement and Labour Outcomes: Argentina, Costa Rica and South Africa. The primary data for this study are drawn from 15 waves of the South African Labor Force Survey (LFS) conducted between September 2000 and September 2007. These were bi-annual, rotating panel...

... Statistics (ONS) ( Stuttard and Jenkins, 2001 ) and the Low Pay Commission (2000) have presented estimates of the number of workers who are paid below or at the minimum wage but have not considered the wider effects on the wage distribution. These estimates are based on the work of Skinner et al...

... and demand relationships are estimated. We find a significant elasticity of substitution between labour and the other factors of production. The minimum wage has had a significant negative impact on the level of labour demanded. agricultural labour labour supply and demand cointegration structural...

... minimum wage. All three have in common the desire to draw on the contract of employment for reasons of convenience in relation to enforcement. The chapter also considers the possibility that the courts might give contractual effect to statutory rights even where they are not expressly formulated...

... the worker’s contribution, and that capitalists were pocketing the difference. This perspective produced purely economic justifications, in addition to traditional moral ones, for both unionization and minimum wage laws—views that were strongly resisted by traditionalists. This collision of views came...

... employee unions are also at the forefront of the campaign against issues such as minimum wage, entitlements to overtime or sick leave, and occupational safety. It discusses the pattern of business-backed legislation, highlighting the many contradictions in the corporate agenda. It also considers how...

... Margaret asset based welfare Child Trust Fund National Minimum Wage Pension Credit Saving Credit for pensioners Saving Gateway Jobseeker's Allowance JSA Kemp P lone parents New Deal for Young People young people Child Tax Credit Family Credit Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs HMRC Inland...

...This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the controversy surrounding the minimum wage. Despite widespread public support in the United States, the minimum wage has, from the time of its introduction, been highly controversial in the political arena. Minimum wages have also...

...This chapter reviews recent literature on the employment effects of minimum wages, which has become known as the “new minimum wage research,” beginning with a brief treatment of the alternative theoretical models that form the foundation of the recent empirical work on minimum wages. It then turns...

...This chapter examines how minimum wage changes affect wages and earnings, first describing how minimum wages affect the wage distribution. The effect of the minimum wage on the distribution of earnings is not as straightforward as its effect on the distribution of wages, and thus the second goal...

... stronger incentives for individuals, especially young workers, to withdraw from the labor force. Labor force Minimum wage Working hours In the United States, 8.8 million workers were receiving disability payments from Social Security in 2012. The number had jumped by 1.7 million from 7.1 million...