Impacts of minimum wages: Page 1 1 Contents Executive summary 2 Chapter 1 Introduction –
motivation for a minimum wage, and current policy context 6 Chapter 2 Who would be affected by …

A century has passed since the first call for a British national minimum wage (NMW). The
NMW was finally introduced in 1999. It has raised the real and relative pay of low wage …

This paper considers some of the implications of the increase in UK unemployment since the
beginning of the Great Recession. The major finding is that the sharp increase in …

This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of the UK minimum wage on the working
hours of low‐wage employees using difference‐in‐differences estimators. The estimates …

We assess the impact of the national minimum wage (NMW) on employment and inequality
in the UK over the decade since its introduction. We evaluate its effects in each year, using …

Impacts of minimum wages: a microdata analysis for the German construction sector | Emerald
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This paper provides a retrospective summary of the effects of the UK national minimum
wage (NMW) on labour market performance since its introduction in 1999. We use an …

Die wirtschaftspolitische wie akademische Kontroverse entzündet sich in erster Linie an den
möglichen Beschäftigungswirkungen einer Mindestlohnregelung. Die theoretische Analyse …

It is easy to forget that when it was first introduced in 1999, the National Minimum Wage
(NMW) was controversial. Its introduction had been a major policy proposal of the new Blair …

Ageing and Pensions Page 1 THE EMPLOYMENT AND HOURS OF WORK EFFECTS OF THE
CHANGING NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE Richard Dickens*, Rebecca Riley**, and David …