Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment: a cross-country analysis

"The authors investigate the employment consequences of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Their treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher’s (2004) seminal cross-country study. Apart from the longer time interval examined, a major departure is the authors’ focus on pri...

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Main Authors: Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna, Addison, John T., Ozturk, Orgul Demet
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
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Language:English
Published: Vienna 2011
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19135201124919534839-Minimum-wages,-labor-market-in.htm
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author Institute for Advanced Studies, Vienna
Addison, John T.
Ozturk, Orgul Demet
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Addison, John T.
Ozturk, Orgul Demet
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description "The authors investigate the employment consequences of minimum wage regulation in 16 OECD countries, 1970-2008. Their treatment is motivated by Neumark and Wascher’s (2004) seminal cross-country study. Apart from the longer time interval examined, a major departure is the authors’ focus on prime-age females, a group often neglected in the minimum wage literature. Another is their deployment of time-varying policy and institutional regressors. The average effects they report are consistent with minimum wages causing material employment losses among the target group. Their secondary finding is that minimum wage increases are more associated with (reduced) participation rates than with elevated joblessness. Further, although the authors find common ground with Neumark and Wascher as regards the role of some individual labor market institutions and policies, they do not observe the same patterns in the institutional data. Specifically, prime-age females do not exhibit stronger employment losses in countries with the least regulated markets."
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Addison, John T.
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employment security
minimum wage
regulation
statistics
women workers
labour market policy
Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment: a cross-country analysis
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title Minimum wages, labor market institutions, and female employment: a cross-country analysis
topic employment security
minimum wage
regulation
statistics
women workers
labour market policy
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19135201124919534839-Minimum-wages,-labor-market-in.htm