Title:
Minimum wage and employment: a gender perspective for Mauritius
Authors:
Varuna Dreepaul-Dabee
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
&
Verena Tandrayen-Ragoobur
Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
Published:
Journal of Business and Socio-economic Development, 15 February 2022
Abstract:
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 impact of the national minimum wage on male and female employment.