The impact of increasing the United Kingdom national minimum wage on self-reported health.
minimum wage
self-reported health
Journal
Health economics
ISSN: 1099-1050
Titre abrégé: Health Econ
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9306780
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
06 2022
06 2022
Historique:
revised:
21
01
2022
received:
06
05
2021
accepted:
27
01
2022
pubmed:
2
4
2022
medline:
20
5
2022
entrez:
1
4
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
There is a growing but mixed literature on the health effects of minimum wages. If minimum wage changes have a statistically significant impact on health, this suggests health effects should be incorporated into cost-benefit analyses to capture wider policy impacts. Whilst most existing UK based literature examines the introduction of a minimum wage, this paper exploits the 2016, 2017 and 2018 UK National Minimum Wage (NMW) increases as natural experiments using a series of difference-in-differences models. Short Form-12 (SF-12) mental and physical component summary scores are used as dependent variables. In the base case and all sensitivity analyses, the estimated impact of NMW increases on mental and physical health are insignificant. The policy implication is that health effects should not be included in cost-benefit analyses examining the NMW.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35362225
doi: 10.1002/hec.4490
pmc: PMC9314077
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1167-1183Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors. Health Economics published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
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