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The Economic and Social Impact of Minimum Wage

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  • Dan ARMEANU

    (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies)

  • Carmen PASCAL

    (The Bucharest University of Economic Studies)

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This paper analyzes a matter of concern and of real interest to economists, employers and the political class, on the impact of minimum wage on unemployment and employment rates. The economic theory shows a positive link between the minimum wage and unemployment. The literature, however, shows no sign of a clear result on this relationship. This work aims to study the relevance of this statement for the Romanian economy, using different econometric methods. The article contains multiple models and approachesto test the nature of these dependencies, such as: cluster analysis, conditional correlation, regression estimation, variance decomposition and testing Granger causality using autoregressive vectors.These are complementary and, in the end, help us reach an unanimous conclusion

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  • Dan ARMEANU & Carmen PASCAL, 2017. "The Economic and Social Impact of Minimum Wage," ECONOMIC COMPUTATION AND ECONOMIC CYBERNETICS STUDIES AND RESEARCH, Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics, vol. 51(3), pages 57-72.
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    Keywords

    minimum wage; macroeconomic variables; cluster analysis; Granger causality; VAR; conditional correlations.;
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    JEL classification:

    • C58 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Financial Econometrics
    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • J30 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - General

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