ABSTRACT This paper estimates the youth employment effects of minimum wages in the Visegrád countries: Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. The analyses are based on a regional panel dataset for the period 2003–16. Our results indicate that changes in minimum wages measured as a ratio of regional average wages have not negatively affected youth employment rates in the Visegrád countries at the national level. Detailed analyses indicate that changes in the ratio of minimum to average wages may have dampened regional youth employment in Hungary in 2008–11, in Czechia in 2003–7, and in several regions in Poland and Slovakia throughout the full sample period.

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维谢格拉德国家地区的最低工资和青年就业

摘要 本文估计了维谢格拉德国家（捷克、匈牙利、波兰和斯洛伐克）最低工资对青年就业的影响。分析基于 2003-16 年期间的区域面板数据集。我们的结果表明，以区域平均工资的比率衡量的最低工资的变化并未对维谢格拉德国家的国家层面的青年就业率产生负面影响。详细分析表明，最低工资与平均工资之比的变化可能抑制了 2008-11 年匈牙利、2003-7 年捷克以及波兰和斯洛伐克几个地区在整个样本期间的区域青年就业。