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Minimum wage non-compliance

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  • Seamus McGuinness
  • Paul Redmond
  • Judith Delaney

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We use a unique question from the Irish Labour Force Survey that captures the reasons for workers being paid below the minimum wage. Compared to existing work, this allows us to more precisely identify sub-minimum wage workers. We find that 5.6 percent of minimum wage workers are paid below the minimum wage for reasons other than those permitted under legislation. This is considerably lower than estimates reported in the existing literature.

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  • Seamus McGuinness & Paul Redmond & Judith Delaney, 2020. "Minimum wage non-compliance," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(20), pages 1663-1666, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:27:y:2020:i:20:p:1663-1666
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1711503
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    1. Redmond, Paul & Maître, Bertrand & McGuinness, Seamus & Maragkou, Konstantina, 2021. "A comparative assessment of minimum wage employment in Europe," Research Series, Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), number RS123.
    2. Devereux, Kevin & Studnicka, Zuzanna, 2024. "Non-monotonic employment effects by market structure and minimum wage level," CLEF Working Paper Series 66, Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF), University of Waterloo.

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