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The impact of the minimum wage on job separations and working hours among young people in Poland

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  • Anna Baranowska-Rataj

    (Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics)

  • Iga Magda

    (Department of Economics, Warsaw School of Economics)

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of the minimum wage on the risk of job separation and changes in working hours among young people in Poland. To this end, we use longitudinal data from the Labour Force Survey 2003-2011 and a difference-in-differences matching estimator based on the changes in the individual position in the wage distribution. Specifically, we test the impact of the minimum wage by distinguishing between individuals who experienced a transition to the below-the-minimum-wage regime. Our results indicate that when the minimum wage was increased, employment levels, but not the number of hours of worked, declined among young people. We also found that the number of hours worked actually increased among those young people who remained employed after the minimum wage was raised. However, these effects of a hike in the minimum wage were found to have differed across various groups of workers, with men, students, and individuals who were working under a fixed-term contract being most likely to have either lost a job or increased their working longer hours.

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  • Anna Baranowska-Rataj & Iga Magda, 2015. "The impact of the minimum wage on job separations and working hours among young people in Poland," Working Papers 75, Institute of Statistics and Demography, Warsaw School of Economics.
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    Keywords

    minimum wage; youth unemployment; difference-in-differences matching;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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