A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …

This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South … Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from …/17 and difference-in-difference models, our results show that employment decreased by approximately 14 percentage points …

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show … that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up … employment) dominates the positive substitution effect (shift towards high-skilled workers). Such situations can occur during an …

Solo self-employment is on the rise despite less favorable working conditions compared to traditional jobs. We show … that the introduction of minimum wages in German industries led to an increase in the share of solo self-employment by up … employment) dominates the positive substitution effect (shift towards high-skilled workers). Such situations can occur during an …

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 …

construction sector in Germany. Instead of estimating the effect on employment, the authors focus on the change of prices on a firm … positive price effects of the minimum wage which exclude the possibility of positive employment effects due to monopsonistic … structures. On the contrary, our results indicate a competitive sectorspecific labor market and declining employment. In contrast …

This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … Germany. In line with previous studies, the estimated employment effect is only modestly negative and statistically …

of vocational training on monthly earnings, skills matching, and self-employment. Substantial heterogeneity emerges as … only observed at the intensive margin and do not lead to higher employment or earnings outcomes. …

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large …, we find no negative employment effects. However, we show that the minimum wage increase may have caused an increase in … the share of informal employment among workers with less than tertiary education, especially for such workers working for …