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271 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17923
Consumption Responses to a Major Minimum Wage Increase: Evidence from Spain
Ignacio González, Hector Sala, Pedro Trivín
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17913
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes on Hours Worked: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17598
Labour Market Dynamics of Minimum Wage Workers
Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness, Elish Kelly
published online in: Applied Economics, 4 March 2025
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17594
Menu Adjustment in Response to the Minimum Wage: A Return to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Border
Kerry L. Papps, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17575
A 22 Percent Increase in the German Minimum Wage: Nothing Crazy!
Mario Bossler, Lars Chittka, Thorsten Schank
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17510
Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
Gökay Demir
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17453
Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy
Petri Böckerman, Toni Juuti, Tuomas Kosonen, Henri Keränen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17453
Are Firms Willing to Pay Lower Wages? A Quasi-Experiment on Subminimum Wage Policy
Petri Böckerman, Toni Juuti, Tuomas Kosonen, Henri Keränen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17436
Long-Term Employment Effects of the Minimum Wage in Germany: New Data and Estimators
Marco Caliendo, Nico Pestel, Rebecca Olthaus
published in: Labour Economics, 2025, 92, 102648
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17357
Minimum Wages in Concentrated Labor Markets
Martin Popp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17211
Directed Search, Wages, and Non-wage Amenities: Evidence from an Online Job Board
Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann, Damian Vergara
an updated version can be found here.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17132
The Impact of a Rising Wage Floor on Labour Mobility across Firms
John Forth, Carl Singleton, Alex Bryson, Van Phan, Felix Ritchie, Damian Whittard
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17074
Minimum Wages and the Uptake of Supplemental Security Income
Krishna Regmi
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 90, 102592
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17042
Informal Incentives and Labor Markets
Matthias Fahn, Takeshi Murooka
published in: Economic Journal, 2025, 135 (665), 144–179
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17016
The Economics of Gender-Specific Minimum Wage Legislation
Riccardo Marchingiglio, Mikhail Poyker
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16964
The Devil Is in the Details: Heterogeneous Effects of the German Minimum Wage on Working Hours and Minijobs
Mario Bossler, Ying Liang, Thorsten Schank
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16882
Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the US and UK
Anna Stansbury
published as 'Incentives to Comply with the Minimum Wage in the United States and the United Kingdom' in: ILR Review, 2024, 78 (1), 190-216
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16846
A Minimum Wage May Increase Exports and Firm Size Even with a Competitive Labor Market
Eliav Danziger, Leif Danziger
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16788
The Political Economy of Minimum Wage Setting: The Factories and Shops Act of Victoria (Australia), 1896-1913
Andrew Seltzer
published online in: Economic History Review, 16 October 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16684
The Asymmetric Effect of Wage Floors: A Natural Experiment with a Rising and Falling Minimum Wage
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn, Jon Piqueras
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16621
Minimum Wage Non-compliance: The Role of Co-determination
Laszlo Goerke, Markus Pannenberg
substantially revised version published online in: European Journal of Law and Economics, 14 September 2024,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16600
Minimum Wages and Changing Wage Inequality in India
Saloni Khurana, Kanika Mahajan, Kunal Sen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16550
Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16550
Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16514
The Minimum Wage, Turnover, and the Shape of the Wage Distribution
Pierre Brochu, David A. Green, Thomas Lemieux, James Townsend
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16507
Minimum Wages and Unemployment during Economic Shocks
Joshua D. Merfeld, Matthew Sharp
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16455
Minimum Wages, Wage Dispersion and Financial Constraints in Firms
Hamzeh Arabzadeh, Almut Balleer, Britta Gehrke, Ahmet Ali Taskin
published in: European Economic Review, 2024, 163, 104678
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16416
Minimum Wages and Voting: Assessing the Political Returns to Redistribution outside the Tax System
Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16257
Minimum Wage, Worker Quality, and Consumer Well-Being: Evidence from the Child Care Market
Jessica H. Brown, Chris M. Herbst
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16204
Labor Market Frictions and Spillover Effects from Publicly Announced Sectoral Minimum Wages
Gökay Demir
updated version available as DP 17510
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16160
Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation
Mirja Haelbig, Matthias Mertens, Steffen Müller
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16107
Minimum Wage and Tolerance for High Incomes
Andrea Fazio, Tommaso G. Reggiani
published in: European Economic Review, 2023, 155, 104445
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16059
Why Do Labor Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases?
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16031
The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked: Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector
Paul Redmond, Seamus McGuinness
published in Economica, 2025, 92, (365), 84-106
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16014
Does Policy Advocacy Generate Good PR? Evidence from Labor Unions and Minimum Wages
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15823
Minimum Wage in Germany: Countering the Wage and Employment Gap between Migrants and Natives?
Kai Ingwersen, Stephan L. Thomsen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15810
Equilibrium Effects of Payroll Tax Reductions and Optimal Policy Design
Thomas Breda, Luke Haywood, Haomin Wang
published in: Labour Economics, 2024, 91, 102646
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15801
Staggered Contracts and Unemployment during Recessions
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Luis Díez-Catalán, Ernesto Villanueva
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15701
The Price and Employment Response of Firms to the Introduction of Minimum Wages
Sebastian Link
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2024, 239, 105236
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15685
The Minimum Wage and Union Membership among Minimum Wage Workers: Why Do Unions Advocate for Minimum Wage Increases?
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15660
Decent Wage Floors in Europe: Does the Minimum Wage Directive Get It Right?
Henri Haapanala, Ive Marx, Zachary Parolin
published in: Journal of European Social Policy, 2023, 33 (4), 421 - 435
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15534
Using Distribution Regression Difference-in-Differences to Evaluate the Effects of a Minimum Wage Introduction on the Distribution of Hourly Wages and Hours Worked
Martin Biewen, Bernd Fitzenberger, Marian Rümmele
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15499
Minimum Wages and Restaurant Employment for Teens and Adults in Metropolitan and Non-metropolitan Areas
John V. Winters
published in: Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (JAAEA), 2022, 1 (3), 254-269
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15437
New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Gabriela Serrano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15345
Does the Employment Effect of National Minimum Wage Vary by Non-employment Rate? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Lei Xu, Yu Zhu
published in: Manchester School, 2023, 91 (1), 18 - 36
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15340
Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
Tony Fang, Viet Hoang Ha
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermannn (ed.), Handbook of Labor, Human Resources and Population Economics, Springer, 2023
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15283
Minimum Wages and the Rise in Solo Self-Employment
Angelika Ganserer, Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15282
What's across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects
Priya Ranjan, David Neumark, Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15254
Minimum Wage Increases and Vacancies
Marianna Kudlyak, Murat Tasci, Didem Tüzemen
This version: January 2023.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15158
Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 217, 1106368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15158
Does Measurement Error Explain the Increase in Subminimum Wage Payment Following Minimum Wage Increases?
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
published in: Economics Letters, 2022, 217, 1106368
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14943
Minimum Wages and Insurance within the Firm
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Francesco Manaresi, Omar Rachedi, Emircan Yurdagul
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14926
Did the Minimum Wage Reduce the Gender Wage Gap in Germany?
Marco Caliendo, Linda Wittbrodt
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 78, 102228
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14747
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence over the Short and Medium Run Using a Pre-analysis Plan
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14700
Adverse Working Conditions and Immigrants' Physical Health and Depression Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study in Greece
Nick Drydakis
published in: International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 2022, 95 (2), 539 - 556
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14532
Firms' Margins of Adjustment to Wage Growth: The Case of Italian Collective Bargaining
Francesco Devicienti, Bernardo Fanfani
published in: Economica, 2025, 92 (365), 107 - 149
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14456
Turning a "Blind Eye"? Compliance with Minimum Wage Standards and Employment
Andrea Garnero, Claudio Lucifora
published in: Economica, 2022, 89 (356), 884-907
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14302
Minimum Wages in New Zealand: Policy and Practice in the 21st Century
David C. Maré, Dean R. Hyslop
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14276
The Changing Distribution of the Male Ethnic Wage Gap in Great Britain
Ken Clark, Steve Nolan
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14178
Minimum Wage Effects on Human Capital Accumulation: Evidence from Canadian Data
Diana Alessandrini, Joniada Milla
published in: Journal of Human Capital, 2024, 18 (2), 346 - 376
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14124
Wages, Minimum Wages, and Price Pass-through: The Case of McDonald's Restaurants
Orley Ashenfelter, Štepán Jurajda
published in: Journal of Labor Economics (special issue in honor of Alan Krueger), 2022, 40 (S1), S179 - S201
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14086
Estimating the Effects of the Minimum Wage Using the Introduction of Indexation
Daiji Kawaguchi, Yuko Mori
published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2021, 184, 388-408.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13982
The Impact of Age-Specific Minimum Wages on Youth Employment and Education: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis
Meltem Dayioglu-Tayfur, Muserref Kucukbayrak, Semih Tumen
published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2022, 43 (6), 1352-1377
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13878
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Wage Spillovers, and Employment in China: Evidence from Longitudinal Individual-Level Data
Tony Fang, Morley Gunderson, Carl Lin
published in: Review of Development Economics, 2021, 25 (2), 854–877
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13782
The Effects of International Scrutiny on Manufacturing Workers: Evidence from the Rana Plaza Collapse in Bangladesh
Laurent Bossavie, Yoon Y. Cho, Rachel Heath
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2023, 163, 103107
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13691
Flexible Work Arrangements in Low Wage Jobs: Evidence from Job Vacancy Data
Abi Adams-Prassl, Maria Balgova, Matthias Qian
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13633
When the Minimum Wage Really Bites Hard: Impact on Top Earners and Skill Supply
Terry Gregory, Ulrich Zierahn-Weilage
published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2022, 206, 104582
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13542
Wage Determination and the Bite of Collective Contracts in Italy and Spain: Evidence from the Metalworking Industry
Effrosyni Adamopoulou, Ernesto Villanueva
published as 'Wage determination and the bite of collective contracts in Italy and Spain' in: Labour Economics, 2022, 76, 102147
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13526
Minimum Wage and Financially Distressed Firms: Another One Bites the Dust
Fernando Alexandre, Pedro Bação, João Cerejeira, Hélder Costa, Miguel Portela
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 24, 102088
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13499
How the Minimum Wage Affects Training among Apprentices
Kerry L. Papps
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13412
The Heterogenous Regional Effects of Minimum Wages in Poland
Maciej Albinowski, Piotr Lewandowski
published in: Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, 2022, 30 (2), 237 - 267
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13369
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
Hyejin Ku
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2022, 40 (2), 325-359
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13298
Minimum Wage Compliance and Household Welfare: An Analysis of over 1500 Minimum Wages
Kashif Mansoor, Donal O'Neill
published in: World Development, 2021, 147, 105653
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13286
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2018
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13062
Effects of Recent Minimum Wage Policies in California and Nationwide: Initial Results from a Pre-specified Analysis Plan
David Neumark, Maysen Yen
published in: Industrial Relations, 2022, 61 (2), 228-255
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13003
Wage Inequality in Germany after the Minimum Wage Introduction
Mario Bossler, Thorsten Schank
published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2023, 41 (3), 813 - 857
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12973
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968
Price Fishback, Andrew Seltzer
published in: Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021, 35 (1), 73 - 96
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12914
The Impact of a Minimum Wage Change on the Distribution of Wages and Household Income
Paul Redmond, Karina Doorley, Seamus McGuinness
published in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2021, 73 (3),1034 - 1056
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12884
Minimum Wage Non-Compliance: Evidence from Ireland
Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond, Judith M. Delaney
published as 'Minimum Wage Non-Compliance' in: Applied Economics Letters, 2020, 27 (20), 1663 - 1666
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12716
People versus Machines in the UK: Minimum Wages, Labor Reallocation and Automatable Jobs
Grace Lordan
published in: PLoS, 2019, 14 (12), e0224789
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12714
The Institutional Adjustment Margin to Import Competition: Evidence from Italian Minimum Wages
Alessia Matano, Paolo Naticchioni, Francesco Vona
published as 'The institutional wage adjustment to import competition: evidence from the Italian collective bargaining system' in: Oxford Economic Papers, 2023, 75 (3), 631 - 651
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12606
Minimum Wages and the Health and Access to Care of Immigrants' Children
Susan L. Averett, Julie K. Smith, Yang Wang
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12410
Wages and Hours Laws: What Do We Know? What Can Be Done?
Charlie Brown, Daniel S. Hamermesh
published in: RSF -The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2019, 5 (5), 68-87
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12388
Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2017
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12369
What Do We Really Know about the Employment Effects of the UK's National Minimum Wage?
Mike Brewer, Thomas F. Crossley, Federico Zilio
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12167
Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12167
Understanding 'Wage Theft': Evasion and Avoidance Responses to Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Michael R. Strain
published in: Labour Economics, 2022, 79, 102285
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12137
The Short-Run Effects of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Labor Market Participation: Evidence from an Individual-Level Panel
Ernest Boffy-Ramirez
published in: Applied Economics, 2022, 54 (35), 4043 - 4059
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12123
Long-Term Responses to Large Minimum Wage Shocks: Sub-Minimum and Super-Minimum Workers in Slovenia
Suzana Laporsek, Peter F. Orazem, Matija Vodopivec, Milan Vodopivec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12043
The Causal Effects of the Minimum Wage Introduction in Germany: An Overview
Marco Caliendo, Carsten Schröder, Linda Wittbrodt
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (3), 257-292
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12000
Where Does the Minimum Wage Bite Hardest in California?
William E. Even, David A. Macpherson
published in: Journal of Labor Research, 2019, 40 (1), 1 - 23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11999
The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns
David Neumark
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (3), 293 - 329
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11893
Minimum Wage Competition between Local Governments in China
Yanan Li, Ravi Kanbur, Carl Lin
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55(12), 2479-2494
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11867
Some (Maybe) Unpleasant Arithmetic in Minimum Wage Evaluations: The Role of Power, Significance and Sample Size
Ronald Bachmann, Rahel Felder, Sandra Schaffner, Marcus Tamm
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11828
Wage Floor Rigidity in Industry-Level Agreements: Evidence from France
Denis Fougère, Erwan Gautier, Sébastien Roux
published in: Labour Economics, 2018, 55, 72-97
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11778
Minimum Wages and the Labor Market Effects of Immigration
Anthony Edo, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Labour Economics, 2019, 61, Article 101753
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11748
A Database on the Passage and Enactment of Recent State Minimum Wage Increases
Jeffrey Clemens, Duncan Hobbs, Michael R. Strain
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11747
Employment Adjustments Following Rises and Reductions in Minimum Wages: New Insights from a Survey Experiment
Mario Bossler, Michael Oberfichtner, Claus Schnabel
published in: Labour, 2020, 34 (3), 323-346
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11728
Minimum Wages and Retirement
Mark Borgschulte, Heepyung Cho
published in: ILR Review, 2020, 73 (1), 153 - 177
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11632
Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland
Seamus McGuinness, Paul Redmond
revised verion published as 'The impact of a Minimum Wage increase on Temporary Worker Contracts' in: 2019, 40 (2), 149-173
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