Report

Does a high minimum wage make it harder for minimum wage workers to progress?

By Silvia Avram and Susan Harkness

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Publication date
Series or book
MiSoC Explainers
Pages
p. 1
Publisher
University of Essex: Institute for Social and Economic Research
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5526/misoc-2020-001

Summary

We used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to examine the impact of minimum wage increases between 2008 and 2018, including the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW), on the progression of minimum wage workers to higher paying jobs.

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