Minimum wage and employment: a gender perspective for Mauritius

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the employment effect of the minimum wage in Mauritius, a country that has recently introduced an economy-wide national minimum wage. As women have low labor force participation rate and higher unemployment rate compared to men, this study sheds light on the impa...

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Main Authors: Varuna Dreepaul-Dabee, Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:Journal of Business and Socio-Economic Development
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Online Access:https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/JBSED-10-2021-0134/full/pdf