Impacts of minimum wages: Page 1 1 Contents Executive summary 2 Chapter 1 Introduction –
motivation for a minimum wage, and current policy context 6 Chapter 2 Who would be affected by …

It is well established in the literature that minimum wage increases compress the wage
distribution. Firms respond to these higher labour costs by reducing employment, reducing …

This paper discusses non-employment margins through which firms may respond to
minimum wage increases. Margins of interest include evasion, output prices, noncash …

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms
responded to a large and persistent minimum wage increase in Hungary. We show that …

Increases in the minimum wage can substantially reduce earnings inequality. To
demonstrate this, we combine administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model of …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages–in the
United States and in other countries–that was spurred by the new minimum wage research …

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We study the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability, exploiting the changes induced
by the introduction of a UK national minimum wage in 1999. We use pre-policy information …

The authors present the first evidence on the consequences of the new statutory minimum
wage in Germany, which was implemented on January 1, 2015. Using the IAB …