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The Relation between Minimum Wage and Unemployment across the Economic Cycle in Countries of the Visegrad Group

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  • Bo?ena Kade?ábková

    (University of economics in Prague)

  • Emílie Ja?ová

    (Institute for Forcast)

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The aim of the present article is to clarify existence and nature of the relation between minimum wage and selected unemployment indicators in countries of the Visegrad group, with the use of an empirical analysis. The obtained figures of correlation coefficients related to the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland showed that the positive influence was predominant over the negative one, meaning rise of the minimum wage was followed by unemployment growth. In accordance with similar studies in the world we have proved that a contradictory effect of the relationship between minimum wage changes and selected unemployment indicators was also relevant for V4 countries.

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  • Bo?ena Kade?ábková & Emílie Ja?ová, 2019. "The Relation between Minimum Wage and Unemployment across the Economic Cycle in Countries of the Visegrad Group," Proceedings of Economics and Finance Conferences 8910608, International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences.
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    Keywords

    Minimum wage; unemployment; unemployment rate; previous occupations of the unemployed; correlation coefficient;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E37 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications

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