While overall production of the manufacturing industry has contracted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, total employment … levels have not undergone a major adjustment.Unlike the service industry, which saw an immediate reduction in employment, the … manufacturing industry has more-or-less maintained the scale of its employment. This property of manufacturing employment has served …

Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using … overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper … investigates whether such considerations call into question findings of statistically insignificant employment effects reported in …

This paper studies the effects of minimum wages on informal and formal sector wages and employment in Indonesia between … on formal sector wages, while there are no spillover effects on informal workers. Regarding employment, we find no … that employers use adjustment channels other than employment or that effects such as a demand stimulus on a local level …

Local labour market concentration may influence firms' employment responses to minimum wages. We evaluate this … wages. We find that, consistently with monopsony views, the negative effects of minimum wages on employment are reduced when … labour market concentration is higher. We also find positive employment effects of minimum wages, but only in some …

-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … increased. We find some weak evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of part-time private sector …

schedules. We use trade-level data on average wages, employment, and other outcomes to examine the effects of changes in minimum … wages. Although the minimum wages were binding, we find that the effects on employment and other outcomes were modest. We …

This paper examines employment and hours impacts of the 1999 introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the … impacts of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours worked using difference-in-differences. We find a small decrease in the … employment rate of 22-59/64 year olds in NI, of up to two percentage points, in the year following the introduction of the NMW …