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 …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …

This paper exploits the introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) in Britain and
subsequent increases in the NMW to identify the effects of minimum wages on productivity …

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is
that firms that employ minimum‐wage workers could have passed on any higher labour …

Analyzing wage policies and the political ideas that underlie them, including the irony of an
Iraq funding bill leading to a minimum wage increase, this book compares not only Federal …

This study analyses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on UK businesses.
Business outcomes considered include labour costs, productivity, profitability and the …

This article explains the role of evidence in determining the recommendations made by the
Low Pay Commission (LPC) for the National Minimum Wage (NMW). First, it sets out the …

Previous research has found little evidence of any impact by the minimum wage on labour or
total factor productivity. This report investigated the longitudinal impact on productivity by …

This paper examines the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on a range of
outcomes for low-paying companies in the UK. We distinguish between the impacts of the …

This paper examines gender differences in the duration of low pay employment spells prior
to and after the introduction in the National Minimum Wage in 1999. The results suggest that …