The Effect of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in Canada

Yuen, Terence

doi:10.3368/jhr.xxxviii.3.647

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“…Most pioneering works were primarily focused on the economy of the United States and based on a competitive structure of the labor market. They concluded that the existence of minimum wage had a negative effect on youth employment (Hashimoto and Mincer, 1970;Welch, 1974;Brown et al, 1982;Hamermesh, 1985;Wellington, 1991;Neumark and Wascher, 1992;Deere et al, 1995;Currie and Fallick, 1996;Partridge and Partridge, 1998;Williams and Mills, 1998;Baker et al, 1999;Pereira, 2003;Yuen, 2003;Neumark et al, 2004). Assuming the existence of a monopsony structure, other studies have provided, in contrast, evidence for the neutral, or even positive, effects of minimum wage on youth employment (Wellington 1991;Card, 1992aand 1992b, Katz and Krueger 1992, Card and Krueger 1994, Machin and Manning 1994Card and Krueger, 1995;Manning and Machin, 1996;Dickens et al, 1998Dickens et al, , 1999Bhaskar & To, 1999;Lang and Kahn, 1999).…”

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Minimum Wage and Youth Employment The Case Study of Iran's Manufacturing Industries

Samimi¹

2011

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of minimum wage on the youth employment using panel technique in Iranâ€™s manufacturing industries at the 4-digit aggregation level of ISIC classification, during 2001-2006. There is the controversy surrounding minimum wage because the effects of the introduction and increase of minimum wage may differ greatly depending on the labor market structure. In order to capture the effects which various un-observed labor supply and demand factors may have on the youth employment, The Kaitz Index (as the ratio of the minimum wage to the average wage) has been used in our analysis. The obtained results provide the small but positive effect of minimum wage on youth employment.

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Minimum Wage and Youth Employment The Case Study of Iran's Manufacturing Industries

Samimi¹

2011

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Statistical analysis and data processing: A case study of employment effects of minimum wages

Wang

2015

2015 12th International Conference on Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery (FSKD)

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The Employment Effects of Lower Minimum Wage Rates for Young Workers: Canadian Evidence

Shannon

2011

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society

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Between 1986 and 1998, six of the ten Canadian provinces abolished their lower minimum wage rates for younger teenage workers. Using data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey, this paper evaluates the effects of abolition on the employment and weekly hours worked of 15‐ to 16‐year‐olds using teenagers in provinces where there is no legislative change and young people above the age to which youth rates applied as control groups. The results provide some evidence that abolishing these youth rates significantly lowered employment and work hours of 15‐ to 16‐year‐olds, but the lack of evidence for some jurisdictions and patterns of effects using age controls do raise some questions regarding the interpretation of the results.

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment in Canada

Cited by 13 publications

References 20 publications

Minimum Wage and Youth Employment The Case Study of Iran's Manufacturing Industries

Minimum Wage and Youth Employment The Case Study of Iran's Manufacturing Industries

Statistical analysis and data processing: A case study of employment effects of minimum wages

The Employment Effects of Lower Minimum Wage Rates for Young Workers: Canadian Evidence

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