Is there a negative effect of minimum wages on youth employment in France?

Bazen, Stephen; Skourias, Nicolas

doi:10.1016/s0014-2921(97)00004-4

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“…This even applies to the US -although there the minimum wage for teenagers is somewhat lower during their first 90 days of employment. 5 In France, where the minimum wage in proportion to the median wage is significantly higher than in the US (Table 1) and where it applies to all workers aged 18 or over, many studies have found negative effects on the employment of youths as well (eg Bazen and Martin, 1991;Bazen and Skourias, 1997). In a study on nine of its member states (Belgium, France, Greece, Japan, Canada, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, US), the OECD (1998c) has concluded that a 10% increase in the minimum wage would reduce teenage employment by 2%-4%.…”

Section: Statutory Minimum Wagesmentioning

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How Flexible are Labour Markets in the EU Accession Countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic?

Feldmann

2004

Comp Econ Stud

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Over the next few years, Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic will experience fundamental structural changes in their economies, not least because of their accession to the European Union. The economic adjustment processes that will take place in these countries require a high degree of labour market flexibility. This paper analyses whether the labour markets in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic are flexible enough for these processes to take place smoothly. In particular, it discusses the following areas: labour force participation, qualification and regional mobility of the labour force, wage-setting systems and statutory minimum wages, labour taxes, government regulations affecting working time and protection against dismissal, and public job-placement services. The paper reveals that there are impediments to labour market flexibility in all of these areas. It also shows that the specific rigidities vary from country to country, both in nature and in intensity. Comparative Economic Studies (2004) 46, 272–310. doi:10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100026

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Section: Statutory Minimum Wagesmentioning

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How Flexible are Labour Markets in the EU Accession Countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic?

Feldmann

2004

Comp Econ Stud

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“…A few longitudinal studies show that vulnerable individuals, such as youths, are more likely to be unemployed after a rise in the statutory minimum wage (Neuman and Wascher, 1995;Currie and Fallick, 1996;Bazen and Marimoutou, 1997). But in many cross-sectional studies the estimated employment elasticity of the minimum wage is statistically insignificant or even positive (Card, 1992;Card and Kruger, 1995;Neuman and Wascher, 1992;Bell, 1997;Bazen and Skourias, 1997;Burkhauser, Couch and Wittenburg, 2000;Neuman and Wascher, 2004). A positive employment elasticity would be consistent with the prediction of non-competitive models.…”

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How Does Decentralised Minimum-Wage Setting Affect Unemployment and Informality?

Comola

Mello

2009

OECD Economics Department Working Papers

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JT03267795The case of IndonesiaThe Indonesian labour market is characterised by widespread informality. To some extent, these outcomes can be attributed to a sharp increase in the real value of the minimum wage since 2001, when minimum-wage setting was decentralised to the provincial governments. To test this hypothesis, this paper uses survey data on the labour market (Sakernas), household income and expenditure (Susenas) and the industrial sector (Survei Industri) to construct a district-level dataset spanning the period 1996 to 2004. The effects of changes in the minimum wage on unemployment, formal-sector employment and the incidence of informality in urban areas are estimated separately by fixed effects and jointly by a seemingly unrelated regression (SUR) estimator. Our findings show that an increase in the minimum-to-mean wage ratio is associated with a net increase in employment: a rise in informal-sector employment more than compensates for job losses in the formal sector. This Working Paper relates to the 2008 OECD Economic Assessment of Indonesia (www.oecd.org/eco/surveys/indonesia).JEL codes: J23; J31; J64

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“…52 Dans la Revue économique, quelques articles présentent la loi de 1950 sur les conventions collectives et mentionnent donc rapidement le salaire minimum (notamment Gazier, op.cit.). A cours de l'ensemble de la période, le seul article qui mentionne le salaire minimum dans son titre (en l'occurrence le "SMIG", alors que l'on est passé au SMIC depuis plusieurs années) est consacré à une modélisation de la boucle prix-salaire (Deruelle, 1975 Skourias (1997), mais qui passera relativement inaperçu, les études sur séries temporelles se trouvant fortement dévaluées après la publication de l'ouvrage de Card et Krueger -cf.plus bas.…”

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D’un siècle à l’autre : salaire minimum, science économique et débat public aux États-Unis, en France et au Royaume-Uni (1890-2015)

Gautié¹

2017

Revue Économique

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RésuméL'actualité renouvelée des controverses autour du salaire minimum invite à resituer celles-ci dans une histoire longue qui commence à la fin du XIXème siècle. Cette histoire est abordée ici en articulant trois niveaux d'analyse. Les deux premiers portent respectivement sur l'étude des contenus empiriques et théoriques des controverses économiques, et sur celle de leurs enjeux méthodologiques et même, au-delà, épistémologiques. Un troisième niveau d'analyse, selon une approche de sociologie historique des sciences, vise à recontextualiser les débats économiques en tenant compte des modes d'articulation de la sphère académique à trois autres sphères : la sphère politique, la sphère administrative, et la sphère de la société civile et du monde économique et social. A partir de l'expérience des Etats-Unis, de la France et du Royaume-Uni (et de son Commonwealth), trois grandes périodes sont distinguées -autour de la première guerre mondiale, des années 1940 aux années 1980, et, enfin, du milieu des années 1990 à nos jours. Au-delà de la question du salaire minimum, l'histoire de ces débats éclaire sur l'évolution de l'économie du travail au cours de cette période, et, dans une certaine mesure, sur celle de la science économique dans son ensemble. AbstractThe recent revival of the minimum wage debates is an incentive to recall their long history, which started at the end of the XIXth century. Three levels of analysis are combined here. The first one is the study of both the empirical and theoretical contents of the economic controversies. The second one is the analysis of the methodological, and, beyond, epistemological issues at stake. Eventually, the third one relies on an historical sociology of science, focusing on the relations and interactions of the academic field with three other fields: the political field, the administrative field, and the field of the actors from civil society and the economic and social world. The study focuses on three countries: the United-States, France and the United-Kingdom (and its Commonwealth).

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Is there a negative effect of minimum wages on youth employment in France?

Cited by 38 publications

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How Flexible are Labour Markets in the EU Accession Countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic?

How Flexible are Labour Markets in the EU Accession Countries Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic?

How Does Decentralised Minimum-Wage Setting Affect Unemployment and Informality?

D’un siècle à l’autre : salaire minimum, science économique et débat public aux États-Unis, en France et au Royaume-Uni (1890-2015)

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