CEP News: FT.com: Pros and cons of raising the UK minimum wage

FT.com:
Pros and cons of raising the UK minimum wage

7 January 2014

In a recent research paper, Professor Alan Manning of the London School of Economics, who supports a higher minimum wage, wrote that the evidence suggests ''substantial increases, even if pursued over a few years, would need to be made incrementally and with a great deal of caution''.

This article was published online by FT.com on January 7, 2014
Link to article here

Related publications
'Minimum Wages and Wage Inequality: Some Theory and an Application to the UK', Tim Butcher, Richard Dickens and Alan Manning, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1177, November 2012

Related links
Alan Manning webpage
Labour Markets Programme webpage

FT.com:Pros and cons of raising the UK minimum wage

FT.com:
Pros and cons of raising the UK minimum wage