scholarly journals The Effect of Changes in Minimum Wage Rates on Provincial Unemployment Rates, 1970-77

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 418-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis R. Maki
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Average Wage ◽  
Unemployment Rates ◽  
Wage Rates

This paper estimates the effect of different minimum wage to average wage ratios among provinces on differences in provincial unemployment rates. The effect is found to be statistically significant, but small in magnitude.

scholarly journals Diminishing Returns: Lone Mothers’ Financial Work Incentives and Incomes under the Coalition

2015 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 569-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen Kowalewska
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Average Wage ◽  
Labour Demand ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
Lone Mothers ◽  
Employment Supports ◽  
The Uk

Lone mothers in the UK are a key target group of tax-benefit measures designed to ‘make work pay’. This article assesses how the Conservative–Liberal Democrat Coalition's ‘make work pay’ agenda since 2010 has potentially affected single mothers. It calculates two lone mothers’ incomes and incentives for a range of working hours and wage rates under the Coalition and previous New Labour government. While the Coalition's measures substantially improve the lone mothers’ incentives to work in mini-jobs of fewer than sixteen hours, their incentives to work longer are still weak, if not weaker than under Labour. Furthermore, the financial returns to progressing in work begin to diminish once hours exceed just six at average wage and nine at minimum wage. While tougher conditionality may still push many lone parents to work longer, weak labour demand and reduced employment supports could undermine their abilities to meet increased work expectations.

Criterion 6, indicator 37 : average wage rates, annual average income, and annual injury rates in major forest employment categories

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth Skog ◽  
Susan J. Alexander ◽  
John Bergstrom ◽  
Ken Cordell ◽  
Elizabeth Hill ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Average Wage ◽  
Average Income ◽  
Annual Average ◽  
Injury Rates ◽  
Wage Rates

The Effect of the Minimum Wage on the Average Wage in France

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilbert Cette ◽  
Valérie Chouard ◽  
Gregory Verdugo
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Average Wage

Regional experience in adapting decent wage standards in agriculture: analysis and evaluation

2021 ◽  
pp. 10-22
Author(s):  
V. N. Kiryanova
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Comparative Assessment ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Average Wage ◽  
Analysis And Evaluation ◽  
Collective Agreements ◽  
Subsistence Minimum ◽  
The Russian Federation

In article the question of extent of adaptation of Standards of the decent salary in branch of agriculture as one of important instruments of increase in profitability of work in agriculture is considered. In order to solve this problem, the author analyses and carries out a comparative assessment of the content of Sectoral Labour Agreements with a view to reflecting in them social guarantees on decent remuneration of workers of the industry in a number of subjects of the Russian Federation. In addition, the article provides analytical material on the degree of practical implementation of social guarantees, as the basis of Decent Wage Standards, using statistical groupings of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation on a number of indicators. For example, by ratio. The minimum wage and subsistence minimum, as well as the average wage and subsistence minimum; Their dynamics by years are given. In addition, the author of the article believes that in order to gain a better understanding of the implementation of the Decent Wage Standards in the industry, it is necessary to study the practice of their application at the level of enterprises and organizations in order to assess the degree of implementation of social and legal guarantees when concluding collective agreements directly in organizations. This will be the next stage of the study on the adaptation of Decent Wage Standards.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Male and Female Employment and Earnings in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nidhiya Menon ◽  
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Wage Gap ◽  
National Sample ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Impact

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 regulations across states and industries. Using repeated cross sections of India's National Sample Survey Organization employment survey data for the period 1983–2008 merged with a newly created database of minimum wage rates, we find that, regardless of gender, minimum wages in urban areas have little to no impact on labor market outcomes. However, minimum wage rates increase earnings in the rural sector, especially for men, without any employment losses. Minimum wage rates also increase the residual gender wage gap, which may be explained by weaker compliance among firms that hire female workers.

The Minimum Wage Debate: Politically Correct Economics?

1996 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 188-197 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Valentine
Keyword(s):  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Wage Rate ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
Major Study ◽  
Unskilled Labour ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
New Material

Economists have long thought that an increase in minimum wage rates would lead to higher unemployment of unskilled workers. The higher minimum rates would cause employers to substitute other classes of labour or capital for unskilled labour and to contract output. Situations in which an increase in minimum wage rates will not increase unemployment do not seem to be practically relevant. The results of Card and Krueger have reopened this question. In their major study a survey of fast food outlets suggested that an increase in the minimum wage rate actually increased employment. Unfortunately, closer inspection of their results has not justified the attention paid to their study. The quality of their data is suspect and other data support the traditional view. In addition, the interpretation of their results is very questionable. The new material actually gives economists no reason to revise their traditional view on this subject.

Minimum Wages and Nascent Entrepreneurship in the US

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Kwapisz
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Labor Economics ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Lower Probability ◽  
Female Entrepreneurs ◽  
Nascent Entrepreneurship ◽  
Wage Rates ◽  
The Us ◽  
Startup Process

Abstract The effect of minimum wages on employment is one of the most widely studied and most controversial topics in labor economics and public policy but its impact on early startups is poorly understood and under-researched. In this manuscript, we investigate whether minimum wage rates correlate with the probability that a nascent startup hires employees and achieves profitability, a topic that has never been addressed before. We found negative but not significant correlation between the minimum wage rates and a nascent venture’s probability of hiring employees. However, female entrepreneurs were significantly less likely than male entrepreneurs to hire when faced with higher minimum wage rates. For ventures with employees, higher minimum wage rates were correlated with lower probability of achieving profitability vs. quitting the startup process.

scholarly journals Minimum Wage and Youth Employment The Case Study of Iran's Manufacturing Industries

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-43
Author(s):  
Ahmad Jafari Samimi
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Manufacturing Industries ◽  
Youth Employment ◽  
Average Wage ◽  
Labor Supply And Demand ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Aggregation Level

The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of minimum wage on the youth employment using panel technique in Iran’s manufacturing industries at the 4-digit aggregation level of ISIC classification, during 2001-2006. There is the controversy surrounding minimum wage because the effects of the introduction and increase of minimum wage may differ greatly depending on the labor market structure. In order to capture the effects which various un-observed labor supply and demand factors may have on the youth employment, The Kaitz Index (as the ratio of the minimum wage to the average wage) has been used in our analysis. The obtained results provide the small but positive effect of minimum wage on youth employment.

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