Report MiSoC Explainers
Does a high minimum wage make it harder for minimum wage workers to progress?
Authors
Publication date
Dec 2020
Summary
We used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to examine the impact of minimum wage increases between 2008 and 2018, including the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW), on the progression of minimum wage workers to higher paying jobs.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5526/misoc-2020-001
Subjects
Labour Market, Labour Economics, Economics, Public Policy, and Wages And Earnings
Links
Download - https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/misoc/reports/explainers/minimum-wage.pdf; Impact of the National Living Wage on earnings - project website - https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/projects/an-investigation-of-the-impact-of-the-nlw-on-earnings-with-a-focus-on-pay-differentials; MiSoC Explainers: Labour markets and institutions - https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/misoc/research/labour-markets-and-institutions/explainers
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