It is well established in the literature that minimum wage increases compress the wage
distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages–in the
United States and in other countries–that was spurred by the new minimum wage research …

This volume is a successor of sorts to the Institute's 1986 volume Toward Renewed
Economic Growth in Latin America, which blazed the trail for the market-oriented economic …

The authors estimate the employment effects of changes in national minimum wages using a
pooled cross-section time-series data set comprising 17 OECD countries for the period 1975 …

The available empirical minimum wage literature, which is mostly based on US evidence, is
not very useful for analyzing developing countries, where the minimum wage affects many …

This examination of the role and potential for replication in economics points out the paucity
of both pure replication–checking on others' published papers using their data–and scientific …

Between 1993 and April 1999 there was no minimum wage in the United Kingdom (except
in agriculture). In this paper we study the effects of the introduction of a National Minimum …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on employment and hours
worked among workers covered by minimum wage legislation as well as those for whom it …

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa.
Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail …

This paper examines the differences in employment and wages between males with and
without disabilities, using data from the Village Disability Survey conducted in Tamil Nadu …