By Lorenzo Montanari, courtesy of Libertad y Progreso Argentina, one of the richest countries in the world during the first 50 years of the twentieth century, is facing another economic crisis. The Peronist government is using Covid-19 to keep the country in one of the world’s longest and detrimental lockdowns. It is expanding state […]
“Four years statutory minimum wage – an overview of the most important research findings” Courtesy of IAB It was the most radical reform of the German labor market since Agenda 2010: the introduction of the statutory minimum wage in 2015. At that time, science and practice contradicted each other in partly diametrically opposed […]
The 2016 increase in Ireland’s minimum wage had a marginal impact on household incomes, although it did succeed in reducing inequality between high and low wage earners by up to 8%, according to Ireland’s Economic and Social Research Institute.
