Vandekerckhove, Sem; Desiere, Sam; Lenaerts, Karolien - 2020
Measuring the effects minimum wages have on wage inequality and employment is complex, and troubled by endogeneity … issues. We use a large longitudinal dataset and sectoral minimum wage variation to analyse trends in minimum wages and wage …’s representatives prefer increasing lower wages over higher wages. This paper explores several hypotheses that could explain this …