Machin, Stephen; Manning, Alan; Rahman, Lupin - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 1 (2003) 1, pp. 154-180
wage distribution, thereby strongly reducing wage inequality. There is some evidence of employment and hours reductions …Between 1993 and April 1999 there was no minimum wage in the United Kingdom (except in agriculture). In this paper we … study the effects of the introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) in April 1999 on one heavily affected sector, the …