Youth minimum wage reform and the labour market / Dean Hyslop and Steven Stillman.

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Youth minimum wage reform and the labour market / Dean Hyslop and Steven Stillman.

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"This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in a 69 percent increase in the minimum wage for 18 and 19 year-olds. Second, the reform raised the youth minimum wage in two annual step...

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Book

Date created

2004.

Creator

Hyslop, Dean Robert, 1962- / Stillman, Steven / New Zealand. Treasury

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http://natlib.govt.nz/records/38741008

Related subjects

Minimum wage -- New Zealand -- Statistics / Labor market -- New Zealand -- Statistics / Youth workers -- New Zealand -- Statistics

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