Social Europe Journal:
Why increasing the minimum wage does not necessarily reduce employment
27 January 2014
Alan Manning takes a close look at the economics and the evidence of these claims, finding that one of their basic assumptions, that labor markets are highly competitive, does not hold.
The article was published by the Social Europe Journal on January 27, 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 webpage