Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107505 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8703
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We explore increases in the nominal minimum wage in a difference-in-differences setting to estimate match survival wage elasticity. The elasticity is negative and larger than one for matches directly affected by minimum wage increases, those with paying below the new minimum wage. The impact of the minimum wage is stronger for young workers and the manufacturing sector, groups with a large and increasing share of low-wage workers. Given the low-wage mobility in the Portuguese labor market and the large share of workers directly affected by the minimum wage increase (reaching almost 18%), these results call for a careful analysis of the set of policies that interfere with low-wage employment.
Subjects: 
minimum wage
employment and match elasticities
spillover
JEL: 
J23
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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