Machin, Stephen 
ORCID: 0009-0004-8130-2701, Manning, Alan ORCID: 0000-0002-7884-3580 and Rahman, Lupin
(2003)
Where the minimum wage bites hard: the introduction of the UK national minimum wage to a low wage sector.
Journal of the European Economic Association, 1 (1).
154 - 180.
ISSN 1542-4774
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Abstract
Between 1993 and April 1999 there was no minimum wage in the United Kingdom (except in agriculture). In this paper we study the effects of the introduction of a National Minimum Wage (NMW) in April 1999 on one heavily affected sector, the residential care homes industry. This sector contains a large number of low paid workers and as such can be viewed as being very vulnerable to minimum wage legislation. We look at the impact on both wages and employment. Our results suggest that the minimum wage raised the wages of a large number of care home workers, causing a very big wage compression of the lower end of the wage distribution, thereby strongly reducing wage inequality. There is some evidence of employment and hours reductions after the minimum wage introduction, though the estimated effects are not that sizable given how heavily the wage structure was affected
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/jeea |
| Additional Information: | © 2003 European Economic Association |
| Divisions: | Centre for Economic Performance Economics |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| JEL classification: | J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J3 - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs > J30 - General J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J4 - Particular Labor Markets J - Labor and Demographic Economics > J8 - Labor Standards: National and International |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2007 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2024 13:48 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/2452 |
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