Real living wages (RLWs) are an important ethical and moral policy to ensure that employees earn enough to live on. In providing ‘a fair day's pay for a fair day's work’, they set an ethical foundation for liveability. This article explores the ethics and moral economy of the RLW for...

Der Artikel befaßt sich mit der Einführung des nationalen Mindestlohnes (NMW) im Vereinigten Königreich. Er erläutert den Hintergrund der Debatte und geht dabei u.a. auf die Entwicklungen in der Tarifpolitik, die Deregulierung und die Standpunkte der politischen Parteien ein. Er enthält...

Some proponents of higher minimum wages cite reduced absenteeism as a positive side-effect. However, little evidence on the relationship between minimum wages and absenteeism exists for the United States. This paper examines the effect of minimum wages on absenteeism using data from the Merged...

One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms who employ minimum wage workers could pass on any resulting higher labour costs in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the introduction and subsequent uprating of the...