The Disemployment Effect of Minimum Wages in Canada Using Provincial Panel Data
| dc.contributor.author | Liu, Jingnan | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Day, Kathleen | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-01-23T19:48:07Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-01-23T19:48:07Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-12-31 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The effect of minimum wages on the employment rate has been a topic of great concern in recent studies. The mainstream view is that the minimum wage has a negative effect on teenage employment and this conclusion is consistent for Canada in previous studies. To verify the disemployment effect of minimum wages in Canada, this paper uses updated data for the time period 1983-2014 for nine provinces to estimate the effects of the minimum wage on teenage employment, and test provincial effects of the minimum wage and control variables. My results support the mainstream view of the disemployment effect of minimum wages, and this conclusion is robust to the specification of the model. Also, allowing province-specific effects of control variables helps to improve the performance of the model, while including provincial effects of the minimum wage may weaken the disemployment effect of minimum wages. The results imply that the upcoming in minimum wages in Ontario will have only a small impact on the teenage employment rate. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37184 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.20381/ruor-21456 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.title | The Disemployment Effect of Minimum Wages in Canada Using Provincial Panel Data | en |
| dc.type | Research Paper | en |
