The impact of a change in the national minimum wage on the distribution of hourly wages and household income in Ireland

Paul Redmond, Karina Doorley and Seamus McGuinness

This ESRI study, funded by the Low Pay Commission, found that the 2016 increase in the Irish minimum wage reduced hourly wage inequality between high and low earners by up to 8 per cent. However, there was no strong impact on the income of households.

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Year of publication:	March 2019
Authors:	Redmond, Paul ; Doorley, Karina ; McGuinness, Séamus
Publisher:	Dublin : ESRI, Economic & Social Research Institute
Subject:	Mindestlohn \| Minimum wage \| Lohnpolitik \| Wage policy \| Zeitlohn \| Hourly wage rate \| Haushaltseinkommen \| Household income \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Spillover-Effekt \| Spillover effect \| Irland \| Ireland \| 2015-2016

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 38 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Research series / the Economic and Social Research Institute. - Dublin, ZDB-ID 2502643-4. - Vol. number 86
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature
Language:	English
ISBN:	978-0-7070-0482-2
Other identifiers:	10.26504/rs86.pdf [DOI] hdl:10419/197510 [Handle]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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