A study of minimum wage employment in Ireland: the role of worker, household and job characteristics

Maître, Bertrand; McGuinness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul

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“…While a minimum wage is shown to reduce wage inequality, the extent to which it reduces poverty or income inequality is less clear, and will largely depend on the number of minimum wage workers in low-income households. Maitre et al (2017) find that 17 per cent of minimum wage employees belong to a household that is at risk of poverty, compared to 3.3 per cent of non-minimum wage employees. Therefore, while minimum wage employees are at greater risk of poverty than nonminimum wage employees, the vast majority of all minimum wage workers are not at risk of poverty.…”

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Minimum wage policy in Ireland

Redmond¹

2020

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The mission of the Economic and Social Research Institute is to advance evidencebased policymaking that supports economic sustainability and social progress in Ireland. ESRI researchers apply the highest standards of academic excellence to challenges facing policymakers, focusing on 12 areas of critical importance to 21st Century Ireland. The Institute was founded in 1960 by a group of senior civil servants led by Dr T.K. Whitaker, who identified the need for independent and in-depth research analysis to provide a robust evidence base for policymaking in Ireland. Since then, the Institute has remained committed to independent research and its work is free of any expressed ideology or political position. The Institute publishes all research reaching the appropriate academic standard, irrespective of its findings or who funds the research. The quality of its research output is guaranteed by a rigorous peer review process. ESRI researchers are experts in their fields and are committed to producing work that meets the highest academic standards and practices. The work of the Institute is disseminated widely in books, journal articles and reports. ESRI publications are available to download, free of charge, from its website. Additionally, ESRI staff communicate research findings at regular conferences and seminars. The ESRI is a company limited by guarantee, answerable to its members and governed by a Council, comprising 14 members who represent a cross-section of ESRI members from academia, civil services, state agencies, businesses and civil society. The Institute receives an annual grant-in-aid from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to support the scientific and public interest elements of the Institute's activities; the grant accounted for an average of 30 per cent of the Institute's income over the lifetime of the last Research Strategy. The remaining funding comes from research programmes supported by government departments and agencies, public bodies and competitive research programmes.

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Section: Wage Inequality and Povertymentioning

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2020

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“…Previous work by Maître, McGuinness and Redmond (2017) used SILC data to study the characteristics of minimum wage employees in Ireland in 2013 and 2014. They found that non-Irish nationals, women, young workers and those with lower education levels were more likely to be earning the minimum wage compared to Irish nationals, men, older workers and those with high levels of education respectively.…”

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“…They found that non-Irish nationals, women, young workers and those with lower education levels were more likely to be earning the minimum wage compared to Irish nationals, men, older workers and those with high levels of education respectively. Maître, McGuinness and Redmond (2017) also looked at poverty risk and found that 17 per cent of minimum wage employees belonged to households at risk of poverty, compared to 3 per cent of non-minimum wage employees. 2 However, while minimum wage employees were found to be more likely to be at risk of poverty compared to other employees, these findings show that the vast majority (83 per cent) of minimum wage employees are not in households at risk of poverty.…”

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“…This study builds on the work of Maître, McGuinness and Redmond (2017) by providing a comparative analysis of the characteristics of minimum wage employees in Ireland, relative to a selection of other European countries where a minimum wage is operational. We use data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to compare Ireland to 12 other EU countries plus the United Kingdom.…”

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A comparative assessment of minimum wage employment in Europe

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McGuinness³

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The mission of the Economic and Social Research Institute is to advance evidencebased policymaking that supports economic sustainability and social progress in Ireland. ESRI researchers apply the highest standards of academic excellence to challenges facing policymakers, focusing on 12 areas of critical importance to 21 st Century Ireland.The Institute was founded in 1960 by a group of senior civil servants led by Dr T.K. Whitaker, who identified the need for independent and in-depth research analysis to provide a robust evidence base for policymaking in Ireland.Since then, the Institute has remained committed to independent research and its work is free of any expressed ideology or political position. The Institute publishes all research reaching the appropriate academic standard, irrespective of its findings or who funds the research.The quality of its research output is guaranteed by a rigorous peer review process. ESRI researchers are experts in their fields and are committed to producing work that meets the highest academic standards and practices.The work of the Institute is disseminated widely in books, journal articles and reports. ESRI publications are available to download, free of charge, from its website. Additionally, ESRI staff communicate research findings at regular conferences and seminars.The ESRI is a company limited by guarantee, answerable to its members and governed by a Council, comprising 14 members who represent a cross-section of ESRI members from academia, civil services, state agencies, businesses and civil society. The Institute receives an annual grant-in-aid from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to support the scientific and public interest elements of the Institute's activities; the grant accounted for an average of 30 per cent of the Institute's income over the lifetime of the last Research Strategy. The remaining funding comes from research programmes supported by government departments and agencies, public bodies and competitive research programmes.

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“…Research fromMaitre et al (2017) compares the sectoral distribution of minimum wage workers in RoI and the UK in 2014 using EU-SILC data, finding that the proportions of minimum wage workers employed in the three identified sectors in RoI and the UK stood at 58 and 55 per cent respectively. NI-specific analysis also shows these sectors to have high concentrations of minimum wage workers (Department for the Economy, 2016).…”

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Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland

McVicar

Park

McGuinness

2019

IZA Journal of Labor Economics

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This paper examines the impacts of the introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) in 1999 and the introduction of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the UK with a land border where the NMW and NLW cover those working on one side of the border but not those working on the other side of the border (i.e., Republic of Ireland). This discontinuity in minimum wage coverage enables a research design that estimates the impacts of the NMW and NLW on employment and hours worked using difference-in-differences estimation. We find a small decrease in the employment rate of 22-59/64-year-olds in NI, of up to 2% points, in the year following the introduction of the NMW, but no impact on hours worked. We find no clear evidence that the introduction of the NLW impacted either employment or hours worked in NI. which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.

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A study of minimum wage employment in Ireland: the role of worker, household and job characteristics

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