Report

The impact of the National Minimum Wage on employment retention, hours and job entry: a report to the Low Pay Commission

By Mark L. Bryan, Andrea Salvatori and Mark P. Taylor

Publication details

Publication date
Pages
pp. 1–76
Publisher
University of Essex: Institute for Social and Economic Research
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Summary

This report from the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex to the Low Pay Commission estimates the effects of the NMW during the recession years (2008-2011). It compares these with the effects estimated for the years before that, from 1999 (or 2000).
It focuses on 3 outcomes:

employment retention
changes in working hours among employees
the job finding probability of the unemployed

Notes

Is referenced by: Low Pay Commission (2014) National Minimum Wage: Low Pay Commission Report 2014: presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills by Command of Her Majesty March 2014. [London]: Stationery Office.

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