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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 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 Wages and Employment [PDF]
Foundations and Trends® in Microeconomics, 2006 We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other countries - that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage ...
Neumark, David, Wascher, William
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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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Is a minimum wage an effective or residual social standard? [PDF]
Соціологія, 2023 The article is devoted to the study of the minimum wage as a social and labor standard. The liberalization of the economy has led to a simplification of social and labor relations, a reduction in the share of labor contracts with social obligations on ...
Nataliia Tolstykh
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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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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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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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Maliye Çalışmaları Dergisi, 2022 The relationship between the minimum wage level and inflation in Turkey, whether it is below inflation or not, has been a matter of debate for many years. The regional determination of minimum wage levels has also come to the agenda.
Deniz Sevinç
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