Minimum Wages and Labor Mobility in the European Union∗ Jonas Feld† This version: February 15, 2024 Work in progress, all comments welcome! Abstract The EU boasts the largest single labor market globally; EU citizens enjoy the freedom to take up work anywhere within the common market. ...
Associations Between State Minimum Wages and the Mental Health of Children, Aged 3 to 17 Years, 2016 to 2022 View LargeDownload The coefficients provide the percentage-point association between a $1 increase in a state’s minimum wage and the prevalence of each outcome. Negative values...
1). In the following years, many state and regional governments continued to raise their minimum wages and by 2019, 29 states, five counties and 41 cities had wage requirements above the federal minimum (Inventory of US City and County Minimum Wage Ordinances, 2022). Even with these wage ...
In the UK, Dickens et al. (2012) concluded that the introduction of the national minimum wage had had a strong effect at the bottom tail of UK wages, raising workers’ wages to the 35th percentile of the overall wage distribution. There has also been research on the impact of minimum ...
1. The Minimum Wage in the United States The 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act, which legislated the first federal minimum wage of $0.25/hour, emerged from the ravages of the Great Depression.5 It was controversial then and has remained so to this day. Prior federal and state minimum wages ...
However, as of July 2024, 34 states have enacted higher minimum wages, with some, such as California, reaching up to USD 16 per hour [13]. Research on the impacts of minimum wage policies on health outcomes is limited and varies in results. For instance, increases in minimum wage have ...