Evidence of the likely negative effect of the introduction of the minimum wage on the least skilled and poor through “labor-labor” substitution

Business & Economics

• Minimum Wage 60%
• Substitution 55%
• Labor 36%
• Emerging Countries 22%
• Domestic Work 17%
• Substitute Goods 16%
• Wage Policy 14%
• Unskilled Workers 14%
• Developing Countries 13%
• Poverty Reduction 11%
• Farming 11%
• Hiring 10%
• South Africa 9%
• Poverty 8%
• Workers 8%
• Africa 7%
• Government 6%
• Design Methodology 5%
• Costs 4%

Social Sciences

• minimum wage 74%
• substitution 60%
• labor 39%
• evidence 23%
• wage policy 18%
• developing country 17%
• Republic of South Africa 16%
• unskilled worker 16%
• poverty 15%
• hiring 11%
• worker 7%
• costs 6%
• methodology 5%
• Group 3%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• minimum wage 100%
• labor 53%
• substitution 50%
• poverty 23%
• domestic work 21%
• developing world 19%
• effect 13%
• Africa 8%
• policy 6%
• methodology 6%
• cost 5%
• test 4%