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The impact of non-competes on wages and job tenure : new evidence from NLSY Data

Potter, Tristan; Kurmann, André; Hobijn, Bart - 2026

Non-compete agreements (NCAs) are pervasive even in low-wage labor markets, yet most evidence relies on variation in enforceability rather than NCA incidence. Using longitudinal data from the NLSY97, we study how signing an NCA affects wage trajectories and job tenure. Exploiting complete work...

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Careers of minimum wage workers

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Maiden, Louis - 2026

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Careers of minimum wage workers

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Maiden, Louis - 2025

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Are all low-wage workers alike? : heterogeneity in the post-pandemic U.S. labor market

Manicardi, Caterina; Basu, Aritra; Sen, Anamika - 2026

This paper analyzes heterogeneity in post-pandemic labor market adjustment across industries, contrasting healthcare and social assistance with leisure and hospitality. Using CPS monthly microdata (2015-2023), JOLTS separations, and LEHD Jobto-Job flows, we estimate sector-specific...

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Payroll tax reductions on low wages and minimum wage in France

Albertini, Julien; Poirier, Arthur; Terriau, Anthony - 2025

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Bridging the wage gap : a discussion of wage subsidies to low-paid workers and their costs in Italy

Bonattia, Luigi; Lorenzettia, Lorenza Alexandra; … - 2025

This paper discusses the potential introduction of permanent public subsidies to supplement the wages of low-paid workers in Italy, taking inspiration from Edmund Phelps' ideas on supporting the working poor. We consider how a negative taxation scheme for low-wage earners might address...

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Do high minimum wages harm the progression of minimum wage workers? : evidence from the United Kingdom

Avram, Silvia; Harkness, Susan - 2025

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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2025

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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2024

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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023

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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023

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Low-wage jobs, foreign-born workers, and firm performance

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2023

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Impact of national minimum wages on collective bargaining and wages for low-paid workers

2025

Increases in national minimum wages can have various knock-on effects - they can, for instance, lead to wage rises more generally and can influence the social partners' latitude in collective bargaining. This report examines how changes to national minimum wages affect collectively agreed and...

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Introduction: Quiet and noisy politics in the "interregnum" : the case of public procurement

Jaehrling, Karen - 2025

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Allgemeine Lohnuntergrenzen für Österreich : Betroffenheit und Lohneffekte

Titelbach, Gerlinde - 2025

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Beyond financial hardships : exploring the effects of unemployment and low wages on psychological health in India

SenGupta, Swapnanil - 2025

This paper examines the effects of unemployment and low wages on mental health in India. The analysis applies cross-sectional data from the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI), 2017-18. Seven different indicators of psychological distress are used. The relationships are estimated using the...

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Low-wage employment in France : A cross-country perspective

Barreto, Cesar - 2025

This study investigates factors favouring a possible "smicardisation" of French workers - the process of an increasing coverage of workers at the minimum wage. First, the minimum wage is relatively high in France compared with other countries, with the result that a large number of workers are...

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Income shocks and mortality of low-wage workers : evidence from wage allowances in Brazil

Castro, Caio Pedro; Corbi, Raphael Bottura - 2026

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Income shocks and mortality of low-wage workers: evidence from wage allowances in Brazil

Castro, Caio Pedro; Corbi, Raphael Bottura - 2025

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The unexpected compression: competition at work in the low wage labor market

Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - 2024

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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - 2023

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The Unexpected Compression : Competition at Work in the Low Wage Labor Market

Autor, David H.; Dube, Arindrajit; McGrew, Annie - 2023

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Revisiting sample bias in the UK's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, with implications for estimates of low pay and the bite of the national living wage

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex; Phan, Van; Ritchie, Felix; … - 2024

We gratefully acknowledge funding from ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) and the Economic and Social Research Council (Grant No. ES/T013877/1). The work is based on analysis of the research-ready datasets from the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) (ONS, 2024a), Business Structure...

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The U.S. low-wage structure : a McWage comparison

Ashenfelter, Orley; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2024

Thanks to standardized work protocol and technology of McDonald's restaurants, the hourly wage of McDonald's Basic Crew enables wage comparisons under near-identical skill inputs and hedonic job conditions. McWages capture labor costs in entry-level jobs, while the Big Macs (earned) Per Hour...

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The U.S. low-wage structure : a McWage comparison

Ashenfelter, Orley; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2024

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The U.S. low-wage structure : a McWage comparison

Ashenfelter, Orley; Jurajda, Štěpán - 2024

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Creating inclusivity through boundary work? : zooming in on low-wage service sector work

Eck, Dide van; Dobusch, Laura; Brink, Marieke Caroline … - 2024

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The effect of an unconditional government income transfer on the labour supply of lowincome workers

Koebel, Kourtney; Pohler, Dionne - 2024

We use administrative tax data to estimate the effect of the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) on the labour supply of single, low-income workers in Canada. Our analytical approach exploits low knowledge of the program, which has two important implications for our research design and...

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Effects of minimum wage changes on the wage distribution in low-wage and high-wage sectors

Strawiński, Paweł; Majchrowska, Aleksandra - 2024

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Low-wage employment in Central and Eastern European member states

Fialová, Kamila - 2024

This research note offers a comprehensive view of low-wage employment. It investigates the nature and extent of low-pay persistence in European countries, using longitudinal data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) spanning 2004 to 2019. The study focuses...

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Revisiting dualism? : the governance of the low pay-low skill labour market in four European countries

Eichhorst, Werner; Scalise, Gemma - 2024

The permanent restructuring of the economy, exacerbated by the digital transition and combined with labour market dualization, is progressively increasing semi- and low-skilled workers' risk of marginalization. This article analyses how countries balance employment and equality concerns in core...

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Why do flexible work arrangements exist?

Datta, Nikhil - 2024

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Labor market effects of paid sick leave : the case of Seattle

Wething, Hilary; Slopen, Meredith - 2024

We investigate the impact of Seattle's Paid Sick and Safety Time (PSST) policy on workers' quarterly hours worked and separation hazard. Using Unemployment Insurance records from before and after the implementation of PSST, we examine individual-level employment behavior at the extensive and...

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Breaking the Vicious Circles of Informal Employment and Low-Paying Work

2024

This report adds two perspectives on informality. First, it disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to...

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The crisis of low wages : who earns less than $ 17 an hour in the U.S. in 2024?

2024

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Do unions care about low-paid workers? : evidence from Norway

Svarstad, Elin - 2024

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2024 living wages for Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island : closing the gap between the cost of living and low-waged employment

Saulnier, Christine; Williams, Russell - 2024

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Minimum wages for low-paid workers in collective agreements

2024

In this pilot project, Eurofound successfully established the feasibility of, and piloted, an EU-wide database of minimum pay rates contained in collective agreements related to low-paid workers. A conceptual and measurement framework was devised, a total of 692 collective agreements - related...

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Non-take-up of in-work benefits : determinants, benefit erosion and indexing

Muñoz-Higueras, Diego; Köppe, Stephan; Granell, Rafael; … - 2024

Non-take-up of welfare schemes is a key concern of policy effectiveness. Building on studies that have shown the low take-up of minimum income schemes, our case study of Ireland's Working Family Payment is the first to analyse non-take-up of an in-work benefit and its determinants with a special...

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Analýza přiměřenosti minimální mzdy v ČR : 2023

Beran, Vlastimil; Petřeková, Adéla; Špeciánová, Jitka - 2024

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Employment and wage disparities between rural and urban areas

Ananian, Sévane; Dellaferrera, Giulia - 2024

Statistical evidence from 58 countries shows that although people in rural areas are more likely to be in employment than those in urban ones, they also tend to have jobs that can put them at risk of experiencing inadequate labour protection as well as low pay. In particular, rural workers are...

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Persistent or temporary? : effects of social assistance benefit sanctions on employment quality

Wolf, Markus A. - 2024

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Minimum wages for low-paid workers in collective agreements

Aumayr-Pintar, Christine; Kostolny, Jakub; Seghesio, Marco - 2024

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The impact of a rising wage floor on labour mobility across firms

Forth, John; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Phan, Van; … - 2024

In April 2016, a National Living Wage replaced the National Minimum Wage for employees in the UK aged 25 and above, raising their statutory wage floor by 50 pence per hour. This uprating was almost double any in the previous decade and expanded the share of jobs covered by the wage floor by...

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Have low-paid jobs increased in the Swedish labor market? : defining low pay in the context of the Nordic model

Alfonsson, Johan; Berglund, Tomas; Vulkan, Patrik - 2024

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"Increasing the welfare of the "working poor" in the Republic of Moldova", challenges, consequences, solutions

Vaculovschi, Dorin - 2024

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A cycle or a tunnel? : a study on unemployment and low-pay dynamics in Italy

Bavaro, Michele; Tullio, Federico - 2024

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Making work pay in mature welfare states : the politics of in-work benefits in France and the United Kingdom

Robertson, Ewan - 2026

This book provides a fresh narrative of policy reforms to support low-income workers in France and the United Kingdom in recent decades. It tackles the puzzle of why two institutionally-distinct welfare states came to make use of similar instruments – including subsidising wages via in-work...

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Which firms offer better jobs for low-wage service workers? : evidence from fast-food franchising

Ouyang, Can; Batt, Rosemary L. - 2026

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Company wage policy in a low-wage labor market

Giupponi, Giulia; Machin, Stephen - 2026

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Labour market dynamics of minimum wage workers

Redmond, Paul; McGuiness, Seamus; Kelly, Elish - 2026

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The Rise of In-Work Poverty In Britain

Vinkler, Marc - 2023

Britain is among the countries in Europe which has seen the highest growth of in-work poverty, resulting in 17% of all working households now considered working poor, compared to 13% in 1996. The purpose of this paper is to examine what has contributed to the rise of in-work poverty in Britain,...

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Platform work, exploitation, and migrant worker resistance : evidence from Berlin and London

Alyanak, Oğuz; Cant, Callum; López Ayala, Tatiana; … - 2023

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Collective bargaining and low-paid women workers : the promise of supported bargaining

Charlesworth, Sara; MacDonald, Fiona - 2023

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Regional diversification and labour market upgrading : local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment

Elekes, Zoltán; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Eriksson, Rikard - 2023

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Regional diversification and labour market upgrading : local access to skill-related high-income jobs helps workers escaping low-wage employment

Elekes, Zoltán; Baranowska-Rataj, Anna; Eriksson, Rikard - 2023

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Psychosocial risk exposure and mental health outcomes of European workers with low socioeconomic status : literature review

Camonita, Francesco Maria; Tageo, Valentina; Arasanz … - 2023

The specialised literature has been increasingly dealing with the implications of psychosocial risk (PSR) factors and corresponding mental health outcomes in employment. Previous research has often focused either on holistic working population or sectoral overviews of selected industries or...

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Low pay and household poverty in Italy

Mussida, Chiara; Sciulli, Dario - 2023

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The decline of paid overtime working in Britain

Bell, David N. F.; Hart, Robert A. - 2023

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Working apart : polarisation driven by widening firm gaps and outsourcing

Zwysen, Wouter - 2023

The labour market position of the lower skilled is increasingly under pressure in most high income countries. Their bargaining position is declining under the twin pressures of globalisation and technological change; and they are at risk of losing access to better positions as firms’ pay and...

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Living wages in practice

2023

At a time of rising cost of living, wide wage inequalities and widespread in-work poverty, the demand for a living wage has heightened. This Policy Insights introduces and contextualises the concept of a living wage. It also highlights the key measurement assumptions and criteria that underlie...

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