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National Minimum Wage: impact on earnings, employment and hours in the recession. Bryan, Salvatori, Taylor

An study of National Minimum Wage (NMW) increases before, during and after the recession.

From:
Low Pay Commission and Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Published
9 August 2013

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National minimum wage: impact on earnings, employment and hours in the recession

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This report looks at NMW increases during the recession and immediately afterwards (2008-2010). It compares them with the impacts estimated for 2003 to 2007.

The study, made for the Low Pay Commission by the Institute for Social and Economic Research, concentrates on 3 outcomes:

  • employment retention
  • changes in working hours among employees
  • the job-finding probability of the unemployed
Published 9 August 2013

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