Does a high minimum wage make it harder for minimum wage workers to progress?

• Publication Type: Report
• Publication date: 15 December 2020
• Series: MiSoC Explainers
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.5526/misoc-2020-001

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Summary

We used data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study and the Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings to examine the impact of minimum wage increases between 2008 and 2018, including the introduction of the National Living Wage (NLW), on the progression of minimum wage workers to higher paying jobs.

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• https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/files/misoc/reports/explainers/minimum-wage.pdf
• https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/research/projects/an-investigation-of-the-impact-of-the-nlw-on-earnings-with-a-focus-on-pay-differentials
• https://www.iser.essex.ac.uk/misoc/research/labour-markets-and-institutions/explainers