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National Minimum Wage (national + minimum_wage)
Selected AbstractsPay determination in small firms in the UK: the case of the response to the National Minimum WageINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 1 2002Mark Gilman Pay determination in small firms is widely expected to follow the dictates of the market. Research on 81 firms in three competitive sectors finds, instead, loosely defined and variable pay structures. This variability is explained in terms of the interplay between labour and product markets, firms' own choices, and ,shocks' such as the National Minimum Wage. This analysis thus contributes to developing institutional theories of labour markets and pay systems. [source] Employer strategies in the face of a national minimum wage: an analysis of the hotel sectorINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 3 2000Donna Brown The introduction of the National Minimum Wage provides an opportunity to examine whether hotel managers act strategically. Most of our sample are affected by this wage floor, and their managers have selected clear response strategies. The majority, 55 per cent, planned to adopt cost minimisation techniques and one third the quality enhancement route. [source] Evaluating the Introduction of a National Minimum Wage: Evidence from a New Survey of Firms in IrelandLABOUR, Issue 1 2006Donal O'Neill We use data from a specifically designed survey of firms to estimate the employment effects of this change. Employment growth among firms with low-wage workers prior to the legislation was no different from that of firms not affected by the legislation. A more refined measure of the minimum wage, however, suggests that the legislation may have had a negative effect on employment for the small number of firms most severely affected by the legislation. However, the size of these effects is relatively modest. [source] The Process of Fixing the British National Minimum Wage, 1997,2007BRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 2 2009William Brown The British National Minimum Wage was introduced in 1999 under the guidance of a Low Pay Commission constructed on a basis of ,social partnership'. The article analyses its conduct over its first 10 years from diary data. Key challenges were for it to be independent of government, to have its advice accepted by government and to maintain internal unanimity. The changing internal dynamics of the Commission, and its major negotiations over the level of the minimum wage, are described and analysed. Conclusions are drawn for the social partnership process. [source] The Impact of the National Minimum Wage in Small FirmsBRITISH JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS, Issue 3 2003James Arrowsmith The introduction of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) had potentially significant implications for small firms. Orthodox economic theory predicts adverse consequences, though institutional analysis points to potential efficiency as well as fairness effects. Using longitudinal data on 55 firms, this paper examines the impact of the NMW in small firms in clothing manufacture and hotel and catering. Different patterns of adjustment were observed, explained by both size and sector characteristics. Overall, the impact of the NMW was mediated by the informality of employment relations in the small firm. [source] Did the National Minimum Wage Affect UK Prices?,FISCAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2010Jonathan Wadsworth J0; J3; D4 Abstract One potential channel through which the effects of the minimum wage could be directed is that firms that employ minimum-wage workers could have passed on any higher labour costs resulting from the minimum wage in the form of higher prices. This study looks at the effects of the minimum wage on the prices of UK goods and services by comparing prices of goods and services produced by industries in which UK minimum-wage workers make up a substantial share of total costs with prices of goods and services that make less use of minimum-wage labour. Using sectoral-level price data matched to Labour Force Survey data on the share of minimum-wage workers in each sector, it is hard to find much evidence of significant price changes in the months that correspond immediately to the uprating of the national minimum wage. However, over the longer term, prices in several minimum-wage sectors , notably, take-away food, canteen meals, hotel services and domestic services , do appear to have risen significantly faster than prices in non-minimum-wage sectors. These effects were particularly significant in the four years immediately after the introduction of the minimum wage. [source] The impact of the national minimum wage on the apparel industryINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2002Roger Undy This analysis of the NMW's initial impact in the apparel industry focuses on organisational and institutional factors in explaining the effects on pay and related issues. The NMW had a marked effect on national terms and conditions, in particular raising the minimum earnings level. At the local level, it impacted directly on the pay of a small number of employees in almost half the 42 organisations surveyed in the East Midlands and Northern Ireland. These tended to be the larger employing units facing foreign competition and selling into the domestic market. Also, in some workplaces, the NMW adversely affected the piecework system. The reaction of local management to these changes is discussed. [source] Employer strategies in the face of a national minimum wage: an analysis of the hotel sectorINDUSTRIAL RELATIONS JOURNAL, Issue 3 2000Donna Brown The introduction of the National Minimum Wage provides an opportunity to examine whether hotel managers act strategically. Most of our sample are affected by this wage floor, and their managers have selected clear response strategies. The majority, 55 per cent, planned to adopt cost minimisation techniques and one third the quality enhancement route. [source] The French food-processing model: High relative wages and high work intensityINTERNATIONAL LABOUR REVIEW, Issue 4 2009Ève CAROLI Abstract. The authors examine wages and working conditions in meat processing and confectionery in France. Working there may not require much skill, or command good wages and working conditions, but this article reveals a more complex, positive situation than expected, thanks to the "French model's" national minimum wage and the extension of collective wage agreements to all workers in the sector. But pressures to lower labour costs are still felt, and the firms examined must meet pressures to increase productivity, flexibility and automation. Moreover, retail chains also seek to lower prices and impose just-in-time production. [source] TheConvergence of the Italian Regions and Unemployment: Theory and EvidenceJOURNAL OF REGIONAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2002Gaetano Carmeci We explore the links between the halt of the convergence process of Italian regions at the beginning of the 1970s and the increase in regional unemployment dispersion. We consider a neoclassical exogenous growth model with an imperfect labor market and show that during the transitional dynamics the imperfections of the labor market negatively influence the output growth rate. In particular, the model implies that centralized bargaining is likely to set a national minimum wage that is too high with respect to the labor productivity of the less developed regions, resulting in a negative impact on their per capita output growth. We test the implications of the model on a regional panel data set using the GMM framework. Both our market distortion measure and the unemployment rate are found to significantly lower the growth rate of per capita output. [source] The National Minimum Wage: Coverage, Impact and Future,OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS, Issue 2002David Metcalf Abstract Since its establishment in 1997, the Low Pay Commission (LPC) , whose main task is to recommend the rate for the national minimum wage (NMW) to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , has operated in a very open manner. Commissioners and the (small) secretariat have visited all the corners of the UK and hundreds of workplaces. Large volumes of written evidence and much oral evidence inform successive reports (LPC, 1998, 2000, 2001a,b, 2003). The LPC also values and nurtures its links with the academic community, many of whom have undertaken research for the LPC which has greatly contributed to the debate on the merits or otherwise of the NMW. In addition the LPC have periodically held conferences where the latest research on low pay and the NMW is discussed and evaluated. Some of the papers in this volume were originally presented at just such a conference hosted by the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics (LSE) on 28 September 2001 and organized (beautifully) by Joanna Swaffield of York University. In what follows the conference papers, those published in this volume, and related research are put into context. Section I deals with the thorny matter of coverage and data. The impact of the NMW on the pay distribution, employment and incomes is set out in section II. Some thoughts on the future of the NMW follow in section III. [source] | ||||||||||||||||||||||