00000caa a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862408560 Buklod 20250805163225.0 m | | ta 250805s2014 xx a r |||| u|eng d 16551516 (iLib)UPBAG-00039569180 BAG rda eng ARTICLE-2912 Canales, Kristine Laura author. The effects of a minimum wage on employment outcomes an application of regression discontinuity design Kristine Laura Canales. [Quezon City] School of Economics, University of the Philippines 2014. pages 97-120 illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Title was 'Philippine Review of Business and Economics' until 1979. Title changed to 'Philippine Review of Economics and Business' from 1980-2000, and again changed to 'Philippine Review of Economics' since 2001. Includes bibliographical references. In this paper, I ask whether a minimum wage increase results in adverse employment outcomes in terms of work hours and the probability of gaining or retaining employment. Regression discontinuity design (RDD) is employed on a household-level panel survey dataset, using the minimum wage as the forcing variable that determines whether a sample is assigned to either the treatment group (minimum wage worker) or the control group (above minimum wage worker). The RDD graphs and the regressions seem to point to a negative effect of a higher minimum wage on work hours, not only for workers earning the minimum wage but also for workers earning 50 percent more than the minimum wage. The probability of gaining/retaining employment is lower for minimum wage workers and for workers earning 50 percent above the minimum wage. Minimum wage Philippines. Labor market Philippines. Employment (Economic theory). The Philippine review of economics Vol. 51, No. 2 (December 2014), p. 97-120. UP UPBAG UPBAG-MAIN ARTICLE-2912 Analytics