Minimum wage and young workers: UK evidenceJ FidrmucJD Tenaifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
Where the Minimum Wage Bites Hard: the Introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage to a Low Wage Sector Between 1993 and April 1999 there was no minimum wage in the UK (except in agriculture). In this paper we study the effects of the introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) in...
Wage theft is increasingly being seen as a problem in the UK, withbillions of pounds being kept from workers, according to some studies. In 2023, there was a series of cases of companies failing or choosing not to pay their workers the legal minimum wage, with some companies being subject ...
This article examines low pay and the national minimum wage in the UK hotel industry, focusing on the lowest remunerated workers in the industry — room attendants — who have hitherto been overlooked in studies of the industry. It draws on qualitative research from eight case studies and relates...
People under 21 on the minimum wage can end up being up to £159 a week out of pocket compared to older colleagues doing the same job - with campaigners saying there is "no excuse" for pay rates based on age.
For the UK, Stewart (2004) finds that the introduction of the national minimum wage in April 1999 did not harm the employment prospects of the low-paid. However, Dickens et al. (2015) find that the introduction of a minimum wage reduces employment retention of part-time working women. ...
Moreover, they potentially also shift the average and median wages of a region, especially if they also trigger labor supply and mobility responses (Grossman, 1983). If a new, elevated MW exceeds the reservation wage of previously inactive members of a population, the increased assured ...
(2006) The effect of the national minimum wage on the UK small business sector: A geographical analysis. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 24(1): 99-116.Mason, Colin, Sare Carter, and Stephen Tagg, 2006. "The effect of the national minimum wage on the UK small business...
The minimum wage in Romania goes up faster than the average salary. This makes it easier for you to estimate monthly living costs, as the average salary is usually a solid indicator of how much your regular family would spend each month. ...
the Administration notes that in the National Minimum Wage Act 1998 of UK, the Minimum Wage Act 1983 of New Zealand, and the Canada Labour Code (and SMW legislation [...] legco.gov.hk 至於應否在條例 草案訂明這些指標,政府當局注意到,英國的《1998年全 國最低工資法》、新西蘭的《...