The Effects of Statutory Minimum Rates of Pay on Employment in Great Britain

Kaufman, Roger T.

doi:10.2307/2234086

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“…Nevile made similar spurious comparisons of Debelle and Vickery's results with results from Swidinsky (1980), Solon (1985), Kaufman (1989), Bazen and Martin (1991) and Neumark and Wascher (1992). All of these studies focused on the impact of minimum wages on either total teenage or total adult employment.…”

Section: Nevile's 1999 Papersupporting

confidence: 61%

Minimum Wages and the Fallacy of the Inflated Denominator

James¹,

Wooden²,

Dawkins³

2001

J of App Econs and Policy

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Section: Nevile's 1999 Papersupporting

confidence: 61%

Minimum Wages and the Fallacy of the Inflated Denominator

James¹,

Wooden²,

Dawkins³

2001

J of App Econs and Policy

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“…1. See Card (1992a), Neumark and Wascher (1992), Kaufman (1989), Machin and Manning (1994) and , for recent studies of this type based on US and UK data.…”

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confidence: 99%

Estimating the effect of minimum wages on employment from the distribution of wages: A critical view

1998

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In two papers, Meyer and Wise (1983a,b) present an ingenious method for estimating the effect of minimum wage rates on wages and employment using data based only on the observed cross-sectional distribution of wages. They, and others who have used this method, have generally found that the minimum wage causes substantial losses in employment. In this paper we evaluate the robustness of this technique. We argue that the estimates, at least for the UK, are very sensitive to the functional form assumed for the distribution of wages and to the assumption made about how far up the wage distribution the minimum wage has spillover effects.

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“…Its recent development, however, mirrors that of the United States and Canada. Kaufman (1989) estimates constant elasticity of substitution production functions for industries covered by Wage Councils in 1980. He uses the estimates for the partial elasticity of substitution to compute that a 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage reduced female employment by approximately 0.6 per cent.…”

Section: Canadian and British Evidencementioning

confidence: 99%

An Evaluation of the International Evidence on the Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Legislation

Seltzer

1997

Australian Economic Review

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The Effects of Statutory Minimum Rates of Pay on Employment in Great Britain

Cited by 25 publications

References 6 publications

Minimum Wages and the Fallacy of the Inflated Denominator

Minimum Wages and the Fallacy of the Inflated Denominator

Estimating the effect of minimum wages on employment from the distribution of wages: A critical view

An Evaluation of the International Evidence on the Employment Effects of Minimum Wage Legislation

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