The UK National Minimum Wage in Retrospect

This paper provides a retrospective summary of the effects of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on labour market performance since its introduction in 1999. We use an 'incremental differences-in-differences' (IDiD) estimator to look at the effects of the NMW in each year through its diffe...

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Volume:	31
Main Author:	Peter Dolton Chiara Rosazza Bondibene Jonathan Wadsworth
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Zielgruppe:	Trade Academic
Place of publication:	Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.12.2010 WILEY Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
published in:	Fiscal studies Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 509 - 534
Data of publication:	20101201
ISSN:	0143-5671 1475-5890
EISSN:	1475-5890
Discipline:	Business Political Science Economics
Bibliography:	Submitted September 2009. The authors wish to thank the Low Pay Commission (LPC) for funding this project – although the former remain responsible for the paper's contents. They also wish to thank seminar participants at Aberdeen University, the London School of Economics (LSE), the LPC, the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR) and Royal Holloway for many useful comments.
Subjects:	Income inequality Retirement age Employment Labor markets Minimum wage Employment rates Wages Unemployment Interval estimators Geographical variation hours of work R12 E24 unemployment J31 J42 employment wage inequality minimum wage Economics Business & Economics Social Sciences Business, Finance hours of work R12 IMPACT E24 unemployment J31 J42 employment wage inequality minimum wage
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