%0 Report %1 Bargain2015Minimum %A Bargain, Oliver, %A Doorley, Karina, %A Van Kerm, Philippe, %B LISER Working Paper Series %C Esch-sur-Alzette %D 2016 %K 2016 FDZ_IUP ISSP ISSP_input2016 checked input2016 isspbib2016 jak techreport %N 2016-02 %T Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay. Evidence from the UK and Ireland %U https://www.liser.lu/publi_viewer.cfm?tmp=3935 %X Since women are disproportionately in low paid work, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. We exploit the introduction of a national minimum wage (MW) in Ireland (in 2000) and the UK (in 1999) to check this prediction. Using panel survey data, we implement difference-in-difference estimation of a distribution regression model. We separate out "price" effects from "composition" effects. A large reduction of the gap at low wages is found for Ireland, with small spill-over effects further up in the distribution. There is hardly any effect in Britain, largely because of apparent non-compliance with the minimum wage legislation.

@techreport{Bargain2015Minimum, abstract = {Since women are disproportionately in low paid work, they should benefit the most from minimum wage policies. We exploit the introduction of a national minimum wage (MW) in Ireland (in 2000) and the UK (in 1999) to check this prediction. Using panel survey data, we implement difference-in-difference estimation of a distribution regression model. We separate out "price" effects from "composition" effects. A large reduction of the gap at low wages is found for Ireland, with small spill-over effects further up in the distribution. There is hardly any effect in Britain, largely because of apparent non-compliance with the minimum wage legislation.}, added-at = {2019-03-20T18:49:19.000+0100}, address = {Esch-sur-Alzette}, author = {{Bargain, Oliver} and {Doorley, Karina} and {Van Kerm, Philippe}}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/272c015e84f18f45e46ff8967180d73a6/gesis_dump}, institution = {Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research}, interhash = {bf71f9b605b7effb72d2ba2633eb3533}, intrahash = {72c015e84f18f45e46ff8967180d73a6}, keywords = {2016 FDZ_IUP ISSP ISSP_input2016 checked input2016 isspbib2016 jak techreport}, note = {https://www.liser.lu/publi_viewer.cfm?tmp=3935. (ISSP)}, number = {2016-02}, series = {LISER Working Paper Series}, tagadata-svko-dda-test = {11080}, tagadata-svkoddatest2 = {11073}, timestamp = {2019-10-01T13:01:48.000+0200}, title = {Minimum Wages and the Gender Gap in Pay. Evidence from the UK and Ireland}, url = {https://www.liser.lu/publi_viewer.cfm?tmp=3935}, year = 2016 }