...Mustafa Utku Özmen; Belgi Turan Purpose This paper investigates the impact of quasi-exogenous and substantial increases in the minimum wage on child labor outcomes in Türkiye. The study aims to provide empirical evidence on how minimum wage policies affect child labor outcomes in a developing...

...Oudom Hean; Nanxin Deng Purpose This paper examines disemployment effects of minimum wages during the period 2002–2010. Design/methodology/approach The authors employ the discontinuity design. Findings The authors find that minimum wages had a significant negative impact on teen employment...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Gary S. Fields Analyses the effect of a minimum wage on unemployment. Using a model with covered and non‐covered sectors, comparative static analysis is performed with respect to the elasticity of demand for labour in the covered sector, the elasticity of the wage...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Eric Girardin; Velayoudom Marimoutou The effects of the minimum wage on employment in Western economies are relatively uncontroversial. The introduction of a minimum wage in Czechoslovakia at the start of the transition, and its increase one year later, gives...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Gilbert Benhayoun Recent studies of the French experience find a small, negative impact of the minimum wage on young persons′ employment, a finding which has led to a political debate over the role of sub‐minimum wage rates for youths. The current study initially...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Stephen Bazen Minimum wage fixing came to be increasingly questioned during the 1980s owing to high unemployment and the rise of liberal economic thinking. This led many countries to dilute minimum wage protection by freezing the rates or altering the coverage...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Richard B. Freeman Looks at the role of the minimum in wage setting and how it differs among countries and over time. Discusses the differing attributes of minimum wages and their pluses and minuses. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Economics Employment Income...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Richard Dickens; Stephen Machin; Alan Manning Presents a theoretical approach to analysing the effects of minimum wages on employment which is intended to conform more with the functioning of actual labour markets than do other popular models traditionally used...

... of minimum wages, outlining the different roles that minimum wage fixing seeks to achieve. Concludes by considering some of the broader issues relating to labour standards, low pay and competitiveness. Argues that, in a market environment where competition is based increasingly on process and product...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Vasiliki Koutsogeorgopoulou Examines the employment effects of minimum wage regulation on Greek manufacturing for the period 1962‐87. The empirical analysis is carried out in three steps. First, estimates the effect of the minimum wage on the average wages of adult...

...Stephen Bazen; Gilbert Benhayoun; Arthur van Soest Legal minimum wage rates for young workers were introduced in The Netherlands in 1974. After substantial increases during the 1970s,youth minimum wages were lowered in the 1980s, in response to the large increase of youth unemployment. Analyses...

... on theoretical literature and empirical research, explores the arguments for and against abolition and discusses the case for a statutory national minimum wage. Concludes by arguing that the case for abolition is far from proven on economic and social grounds, and that the introduction of a statutory national...