Minimum wage effects on permanent versus temporary minimum wage employment
Authors: Michele Campolieti, Morley Gunderson, and Byron Y. Lee
Overview
Abstract (English)
We estimate the effect of minimum wages on employment using the Master Files of the Canadian Labour Force Survey over the recent period 1997-2008. Particular attention is paid to the differences between permanent and temporary minimum wage workers-an important distinction not made in the existing literature. Our estimates for permanent and temporary minimum wage workers combined are at the lower end of estimates based on Canadian studies estimated over earlier time periods, suggesting that the adverse employment effects are declining over time for reasons discussed. Importantly, the adverse employment effects are substantially larger for permanent compared to temporary minimum wage workers; in fact they fall almost exclusively on permanent minimum wage workers.
Abstract (French)
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Details
Type | Journal article |
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Author | Michele Campolieti, Morley Gunderson, and Byron Y. Lee |
Publication Year | 2014 |
Title | Minimum wage effects on permanent versus temporary minimum wage employment |
Volume | 32 |
Journal Name | Contemporary Economic Policy |
Number | 3 |
Pages | 578-591 |
Publication Language | English |
- Michele Campolieti
- Michele Campolieti, Morley Gunderson, and Byron Y. Lee
- Minimum wage effects on permanent versus temporary minimum wage employment
- Contemporary Economic Policy
- 32
- 2014
- 3
- 578-591