In 2016, the Irish minimum wage increased from €8.65 to €9.15 per hour. A new ESRI study, funded by the Low Pay Commission, found that the 2016 minimum wage increase led to higher labour costs among firms with more than half of their employees on the minimum wage. However, these types of...

Die Stellungnahme bewertet die beiden Anträge (zu Mindest-Kurzarbeitergeld und QualifizierungsKurzarbeit), die bei der öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses für Arbeit und Soziales des Deutschen Bundestags am 1.3.2021 behandelt wurden. Im Vergleich zum ersten Antrag und zur aktuell geltenden...

In late 2020, the European Commission took an important step towards securing adequate minimum wages for all workers in Europe with the publication of a draft Directive aimed at reversing the growing polarisation of incomes and the growth of in-work poverty. Securing an income sufficient for a...

Using data for 2017 and 2018, this report provides a comparative analysis of minimum wage employment in Ireland, relative to a selection of other European countries with a statutory minimum wage. We estimate that just under 10 per cent of employees in Ireland were on the minimum wage during this...