The other margin: do minimum wages cause working hours adjustments for low-wage workers?

Mark Stewart and Joanna Swaffield ()

The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) from University of Warwick, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper estimates the impact of the introduction of the UK minimum wage on the working hours of low-wage employees using difference-in-differences estimators. The estimates using the employer-based New Earnings Surveys indicate that the introduction of the minimum wage reduced the basic hours of low-wage workers by between 1 and 2 hours per week. The effects on total paid hours are similar (indicating negligible effects on paid overtime) and lagged effects dominate the smaller and less significant initial effects within this. Estimates using the employee-based Labour Force Surveys are typically less significant.

Keywords: minimum wages; working hours; labour demand; difference-in-differences estimator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J28 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 33 pages
Date: 2006
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Journal Article: The Other Margin: Do Minimum Wages Cause Working Hours Adjustments for Low‐Wage Workers? (2008)
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