UK National Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Workers (doi:10.7910/DVN/JKKTKM)

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Title:

UK National Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Workers

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doi:10.7910/DVN/JKKTKM

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Date of Distribution:

2018-01-31

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Bibliographic Citation:

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J.D., 2018, "UK National Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Workers", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JKKTKM, Harvard Dataverse, V2

Study Description

Citation

Title:

UK National Minimum Wage and Labor Market Outcomes of Young Workers

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/JKKTKM

Authoring Entity:

Fidrmuc, Jan (Brunel University; Institute of Economic Studies, Charles University, UK; and CESifo Munich, Germany)

Tena, J.D. (University of Liverpool, UK)

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Harvard Dataverse

Distributor:

Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal

Access Authority:

Korinna Werner-Schwarz

Depositor:

Werner-Schwarz, Korinna

Date of Deposit:

2018-01-31

Holdings Information:

https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JKKTKM

Study Scope

Keywords:

Social Sciences, Minimum wage, employment, young workers, regression discontinuity design

Topic Classification:

J21, J31

Abstract:

The UK national minimum wage (NMW) is age-specific with the most important threshold at the age of 22 (lowered to 21 from 2010 onwards) when workers become eligible for the adult rate. The authors estimate the impact of this threshold on employment by means of a regression discontinuity analysis. Because this threshold is known in advance, they investigate the presence of discontinuities in both the level and the slope of employment probabilities at different ages around the threshold. Their results indicate that turning 22 does not significantly change the employment probability. However, they find a significant change in the slope of the probability of being employed around one year before, suggesting a smooth deterioration of employment probability before turning 22 rather than a sudden change at a particular age. This finding is confirmed by a difference-in-difference analysis. However, no such effect can be found during the period preceding the introduction of the NMW.

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Jan Fidrmuc and J. D. Tena (2018). UK national minimum wage and labor market outcomes of young workers. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 12 (2018-5).

Identification Number:

10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-5

Bibliographic Citation:

Jan Fidrmuc and J. D. Tena (2018). UK national minimum wage and labor market outcomes of young workers. Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal, 12 (2018-5).

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