EconPapers    
Economics at your fingertips  
 

Effects of collective minimum wages on youth employment in Austria

Michael Christl, Monika Köppl-Turyna and Dénes Kucsera
Additional contact information
Dénes Kucsera: Agenda Austria

Empirica, 2017, vol. 44, issue 4, No 7, 805 pages

Abstract: Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of collective minimum wages on youth employment for 14 sectors of the Austrian economy, taking into account the possibility of nonlinearity. We find that when the real index of minimum wage rises above a certain point, negative employment effects for young individuals (aged between 19 and 25 years) can be expected in Austria. In five of seven market sectors the minimum wage lies above the optimal level that maximizes the employment of young workers.

Keywords: Minimum wage; Employment; Young workers; Austria; Collective bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J38 J48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (5)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10663-016-9341-7 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:kap:empiri:v:44:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1007_s10663-016-9341-7

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.springer. ... ration/journal/10663

DOI: 10.1007/s10663-016-9341-7

Access Statistics for this article

Empirica is currently edited by Fritz Breuss and Fritz Breuss

More articles in Empirica from Springer, Austrian Institute for Economic Research, Austrian Economic Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla (sonal.shukla@springer.com) and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (indexing@springernature.com).

 
Page updated 2025-02-01
Handle: RePEc:kap:empiri:v:44:y:2017:i:4:d:10.1007_s10663-016-9341-7