Effects of Minimum Wages on Total Employment: Evidence from Cyprus

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• 作者：Pandelis Mitsis
• 关键词：Minimum wage ; Coverage ; Employment effects ; Time series models ; J38 ; J48 ; E24 ; C32
• 刊名：Journal of Labor Research
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：September 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：36
• 期：3
• 页码：318-345
• 全文大小：598 KB
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• 作者单位：Pandelis Mitsis (1)
  
  1. Department of Economics, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Cyprus, P.O. Box 20537, 1678, Nicosia, Cyprus
  
• 刊物主题：Social Sciences, general;
• 出版者：Springer US
• ISSN：1936-4768

文摘

This study examines the relationship between total employment and the minimum wage in the special case where only a number of occupations are covered by the relevant legislation. Empirical evidence is provided by analysing time series data from Cyprus, the only country in the European Union where the minimum wage coverage is limited to a small number of occupations. After addressing the issues of stationarity, dynamic specification and endogeneity that most of the existing literature ignores, evidence is found of a significant and negative relationship between the minimum wage and total employment. This result is robust across variations in the sample period and the measure of the minimum wage. In the framework of recently developed search and matching models, the findings suggest the existence of significant spill-over effects to the occupations that are not covered by the minimum wage legislation.