Minimum wage increases may benefit minimum wage workers, but this increase is not automatically dictated as a wage increase for higher wage workers as well. The first step in monitoring the effects of the minimum wage is to verify whether it...
The legal minimum wage level has over the years been used as the most direct policy instrument of governments to influence wage levels at the bottom of the distribution mechanism. But even though minimum wages are considered as a policy action...
The decreases in employment income in Albania appear to have consisted not only of job losses for those employed seasonally or even permanently for some activities [1]. For this period, there was also a decrease in the value of...
In 2015 the head of a family working full time at the basic minimum of $1.10 per hour would have earned $2,255 or 18% percent less than the basic living standard (non-official one) for a nonfarm family of four. However, Albanian...
In 2015, the annually fund of wage in Albania it was at 1.8 to 2.1 billion Euro, including the tax labour. Only 29% of that fund of wage belong to the minimum wage category. It is time that minimum wage...
In recent years, there has been growing interest in the role of minimum wages in improving the lives of low-paid workers, and also in rebalancing national economies. In China, coordinated minimum wage increases across provinces have been a key part...
The public debate on increasing, decreasing, or implementing a minimum wage is not unlike the mythological hydra of Lerna. Not long after the debate is temporarily settled in one country it rears its head in another.1 This regularity is suggestive...
