Minimum wages and firm value

Brian Bell and Stephen Machin

LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library

Abstract: How does firm value change in response to a minimum wage hike? This paper exploits the announcement of a big change in the UK minimum wage that was both totally unanticipated and free of uncertainty. The stock market response to this is examined in an event study setting. The analysis uncovers significant falls in the stock market value of low-wage firms. In light of this finding, the paper concludes by discussing magnitudes of response, including longer-term modes of firm adjustment to the cost shock induced by the minimum wage hike.

JEL-codes: J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018-01-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ore
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (38)

Published in Journal of Labor Economics, 1, January, 2018, 36(1), pp. 159-195. ISSN: 0734-306X

Downloads: (external link)
http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/88286/ Open access version. (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Minimum Wages and Firm Value (2018)
Working Paper: Minimum wages and firm value (2016)
Working Paper: Minimum wages and firm value (2016)
Working Paper: Minimum Wages and Firm Value (2016)
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:ehl:lserod:88286

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in LSE Research Online Documents on Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library LSE Library Portugal Street London, WC2A 2HD, U.K.. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by LSERO Manager ().