Do low minimum wages disserve workers? A case study of the Czech and Slovak Republics
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1406099X.2021.1917844?needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1406099X.2021.1917844?needAccess=true</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1406099X.2021.1917844" target="_blank" >10.1080/1406099X.2021.1917844</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Do low minimum wages disserve workers? A case study of the Czech and Slovak Republics
Original language description
This article analyses the effects of minimum wage on employment in the Czech and Slovak Republics based on 2005–17 EU-SILC data. Our results contribute to the scant literature on minimum wage effects in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. While prior empirical findings concurred with the effects of minimum wage on labour market outcomes in CEE countries when the minimum wage is relatively high, there is ambiguity when the minimum wage is relatively low. In Slovakia we find that regular minimum wage hikes had insignificant effects on employment. Similarly, we find no negative employment consequences from irregular hikes in the comparatively low minimum wage (MW) of the Czech Republic. Moreover, the groups assumed to be most affected by MW hikes did not experience greater negative consequences following hikes when compared to the overall population of workers in either country.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50202 - Applied Economics, Econometrics
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA18-07036S" target="_blank" >GA18-07036S: Methodology and reality of poverty: Czech Republic in the European context</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Baltic Journal of Economics
ISSN
1406-099X
e-ISSN
2334-4385
Volume of the periodical
21
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
LV - LATVIA
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
43-59
UT code for WoS article
000645421900001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85106686685