About the event
Format and Rules
The seminar is held on Zoom and lasts 60 minutes including questions. Please use the "raise hand" function if you have any questions and please stay muted until called by the presenter.
Seminars will be recorded and available on this website a few days after. Please note that you may be recorded if you activate your video or speak during the seminar.
Abstract: This paper analyzes an age-specific minimum wage change in the United Kingdom – the National Living Wage introduction. The new minimum wage applied only to workers aged 25 and over, and was substantially higher than that for workers under 25. Using matched employer-employee data on the care home sector, we document positive wage spillovers on younger workers, whose wages rose in tandem with those of older workers, but with no detrimental effects on youth employment. We show that wage spillovers arise within rather than between firms. Based on empirical tests, pay-equity concerns offer the most plausible explanation for the wage spillovers.
Please check back closer to the event for more details.
- The online seminars are held on Zoom and last 75 minutes; 60 minutes are allocated to the seminar and 15 minutes for discussion
- The online seminars are held on Zoom and last 60 minutes including discussion.
- The link to each seminar will appear above prior to the start time. Please email h.ku@ucl.ac.uk si.xu.20@ucl.ac.uk if you have not received the password by the day of the seminar.
- The moderator will collect audience questions in chat or using the 'raise hand' function, but feel free to interrupt the presenter for short questions or clarifications.
- Please keep your camera on and your microphone off except when asking questions.
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