The Impact of the National Minimum Wage on the Wage Distribution in a Low-Wage Sector

Richard Dickens () and Alan Manning ()

No 60, Royal Economic Society Annual Conference 2003 from Royal Economic Society

Abstract: The National Minimum Wage (NMW) that was introduced in April 1999 is sometimes paraded as evidence of the Blair government s commitment to reversing the rise in inequality that was characteristic of the last 25 years.

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