A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while … wage workers. In this paper, we test for heterogeneous effects of a minimum wage increase on the hours worked of minimum … wage employees in Ireland. For all minimum wage workers, we find that a ten percent increase in the minimum wage leads to a …

The gender wage gap has declined in magnitude over time; however, the gap that remains is largely unexplained due to … gender convergence in key wage determining characteristics. In this paper we show that the degree of gender convergence … differs across countries in Europe. Most, if not all, of the wage gap is unexplained in some countries, predominantly in …