This book analyses how the economic crisis in the 1970s led to the erosion of the regulated
type of capitalism that came to be in place after World War II, and paved the way to a …

In this paper we document the main features of the distributions of wages, earnings,
consumption and wealth in Japan since the early 1980s using four main data sources: the …

This paper aims at assessing the effect of significant increase in the minimum wage
observed in Poland in 2008–2009 on gender wage gap. To check the potentially …

Previous studies have reached little consensus on the employment effect of the minimum
wage. This paper argues that local labor markets are heterogeneous, in that the impact of …

We study the transmission channels for rises in the minimum wage using a unique firm-level
dataset from eight Central and Eastern European countries. Representative samples of firms …

Why has wage inequality not changed in Japan while it has secularly increased in the US
over the last few decades? Pointing to the difference in the trends of the college wage …

This paper argues that Japan's excessive labor market duality can reduce Total Factor
Productivity (TFP) due to a negative impact on non-regular workers' effort and on firms' …

This study examines how employment and wages for men and women respond to changes
in the minimum wage in India, a country known for its extensive system of minimum wage …

We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage
hike induced by the introduction of indexation of the local minimum wage to the local cost of …

This paper considers whether the minimum wage is a well‐targeted antipoverty policy by
examining the backgrounds of minimum‐wage workers. Whether raising the minimum wage …