Minimum Wages and Firm Employment : Evidence from China /

This paper provides the first systematic study of how minimum wage policies in China affect firm employment over the 2000-2007 periods. Using a novel dataset of minimum wage regulations across more than 2,800 counties matched with firm-level data, we investigate both the effect of the minimum wage a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Huang, Yi
Other Authors: Loungani, Prakash, Wang, Gewei
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2014.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2014/184
Online Access:Full text available on IMF