Employment, Inequality and the UK National Minimum Wage over the Medium-Term*
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
A Re - examination of the Impact of the UK National Minimum Wage on Employment Richard Dickens
A general consensus has emerged that while the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) raised the pay of low wage workers it did little to harm their employment prospects. This is in contrast to the US and other countries where a debate over minimum wage effects still rages on. We re-examine the evidence on the introduction of the NMW and look at subsequent increases through the recession focusing on se...
متن کاملWage Inequality, Minimum Wage Effects and Spillovers
This paper investigates possible spillover effects of the UK minimum wage. The halt in the growth in inequality in the lower half of the wage distribution (as measured by the 50:10 percentile ratio) since the mid 1990s, in contrast to the continued inequality growth in the upper half of the distribution, suggests the possibility of a minimum wage effect and spillover effects on wages above the ...
متن کاملThe Contribution of the Minimum Wage to U.S. Wage Inequality over Three Decades: A Reassessment
We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses potential biases in prior work. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution, though by substantially less than previous estimates, suggesting that rising lower tail inequality after 1980 primarily reflects underlying...
متن کاملThe Empirics of the National Minimum Wage and Employment in the U.K
Hertfordshire Business School employs approximately 200 academic staff in a state-of-the-art environment located in Hatfield Business Park. It offers 17 undergraduate degree programmes and 21 postgraduate programmes; there are about 75 research students working at doctoral level. The University of Hertfordshire is the UK’s leading business-facing university and an exemplar in the sector. It is ...
متن کاملThe impact of the UK National Minimum Wage on mental health
Despite an emerging literature, there is still sparse and mixed evidence on the wider societal benefits of Minimum Wage policies, including their effects on mental health. Furthermore, causal evidence on the relationship between earnings and mental health is limited. We focus on low-wage earners, who are at higher risk of psychological distress, and exploit the quasi-experiment provided by the ...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0305-9049
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0084.2011.00653.x