Wage theft, or nonpayment of wages to which workers are legally entitled, is a major contributor to low income, which in turn has adverse health effects. We describe a participatory research study of wage theft among immigrant Chinatown restaurant workers. We conducted surveys of 433 workers, and developed and used a health department observational tool in 106 restaurants. Close to 60% of worke...

Entry-level crowd work is often reported to pay less than minimum wage. While this may be appropriate or even necessary, due to various legal, economic, and pragmatic factors, some Requesters and workers continue to question this status quo. To promote further discussion on the issue, we asked Requesters and workers if they would support restricting tasks to require minimum wage pay. As a form ...

Consistent with recent work by Meer and West, I find a negative association between minimum wages and state-level aggregate employment growth in both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages data, and it is sizable for some time periods. However, I show that this negative association is present in exactly the wrong sectors. It is particularly strong in m...

Both the choice and crowding hypotheses can explain occupational wage differentials. If wage differentials are the product of choice, there is no cause for concern because individuals who freely choose to enter a lower-paying occupation cannot be worse off. If wage differentials are the product of crowding (discrimination), we demonstrate that the best solution is to attack barriers to entry di...

This study analyses employers‘ support for the introduction of industry-specifi c minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 fi rms in the German service sector, we fi nd some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further show that minimum wage support is higher in industries and regions with l...

This study analyses employers‘ support for the introduction of industry-specifi c minimum wages as a cost-raising strategy in order to deter market entry. Using a unique data set consisting of 800 fi rms in the German service sector, we fi nd some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further show that minimum wage support is higher in industries and regions with l...

Correspondence: andrea.garnero@ oecd.org OECD, 2, rue André Pascal -, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, France CEB, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract: This paper provides a comprehensive portrait of the level and compliance with sectoral minimum wages in Italy between 2008 and 2015. The results show that wage flo...

This study analyzes spatial dependencies in the relationship between employment and minimum wage. Local may be affected not only by changes relative wage a region but also those neighboring regions. We use Durbin model data for 380 local Polish labor markets during 2006–2018. The results reveal significant heterogeneities model, showing minimum-to-average-wage ratio effects, insignificant at be...