State Minimum Wage Increases As a Potential Policy Lever to Reduce Black?White Disparities in Hypertension [PDF]
Health Equity, 2023 Introduction: Black adults are disproportionately burdened by hypertension. Income inequality is associated with elevated risk of hypertension. Minimum wage increases have been explored as a potential policy lever to address the disparate impact of ...
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Minimum wage standard adjustment and employment: Heterogeneity effects on the human capital investment [PDF]
HeliyonConsiderable debate has arisen around the potential effects of increasing the minimum wage on employment. This study aims to analyze the impact of changes in China's minimum wage standard on employment.
Lin Ling +3 more
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Do minimum wage laws affect those who are not covered? Evidence from agricultural and non-agricultural workers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Some employers are not obligated to pay at least minimum wages to all employees. U.S. farm employers comprise one of these groups. Employees of large farms and H-2A workers (lawfully admitted, nonimmigrant workers performing temporary or seasonal ...
Maoyong Fan, Anita Alves Pena
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Examining the association of changes in minimum wage with health across race/ethnicity and gender in the United States [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2019 Background The minimum wage creates both winners (through wage increases) and—potentially—losers (through job losses). Research on the health effects of minimum wage policies has been sparse, particularly across gender and among racial/ethnic minorities.
Kimberly Danae Cauley Narain +1 more
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Minimum wage and employment: a gender perspective for Mauritius [PDF]
Journal of Business and Socio-Economic Development, 2023 Purpose – This paper aims to examine the employment effect of the minimum wage in Mauritius, a country that has recently introduced an economy-wide national minimum wage.
Varuna Dreepaul-Dabee +1 more
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A First Glance at the Minimum Wage Incidence in Lithuania Using Social Security Data*
Ekonomika, 2021 This document explores the incidence of the minimum wage in Lithuania. The descriptive analysis exploits high-frequency data on monthly labor income coming from Social Security records between July 2013 and July 2020 to characterize (i) the evolution of ...
Jose Garcia-Louzao, Linas Tarasonis
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Minimum Wage Effects on Reservation Wages
Journal of Labor Research, 2022 AbstractReservation wages are part of the transmission mechanism between minimum wages and unemployment via the labour force participation decision. The limited available empirical evidence on the relationship between reservation wages and legal minimum wages suggest that individuals use minimum wages as benchmarks against which their reservation wages
Panos Sousounis, Gauthier Lanot
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The minimum wage as a wage equality policy: Evidence from North Macedonia [PDF]
Ekonomski Anali, 2019 The paper aims to investigate if the minimum wage increase of September 2017 resulted in better wage equality in North Macedonia. The increase of 19% was sizable and included levelling up in the three sectors with a lower minimum wage: textiles,
Petreski Marjan +2 more
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Do low minimum wages disserve workers? A case study of the Czech and Slovak Republics
Baltic Journal of Economics, 2021 This article analyses the effects of minimum wage on employment in the Czech and Slovak Republics based on 2005–17 EU-SILC data. Our results contribute to the scant literature on minimum wage effects in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region ...
Kamila Fialová, Martina Mysíková
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How to regulate minimum wage in light of contemporary social change: A case study of Slovenia
Stanovništvo, 2023 Minimum wage stands as a fundamental right for workers and one of the oldest and most universal labour law standards in the world. Understanding the impact of labour market changes, demographic trends, and migration on minimum wage regulation could ...
Andraž Bobovnik, Valentina Franca
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