Exploiting the Irish Border to Estimate Minimum Wage Impacts in Northern Ireland
This paper examines the impacts of the introduction of the UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) in 1999 and the introduction of the UK National Living Wage (NLW) in 2016 in Northern Ireland (NI) on employment and hours. NI is the only part of the UK with a land border where the NMW and NLW cover those wor...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2019-07-01
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| Series: | IZA Journal of Labor Economics |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/izajole-2019-0002 |