Youth minimum wages and youth employment

Table 1 Classification of countries on minimum wage systems (2000–2014)

Group 1: Countries with statutory minimum wages (Ν₁ = 21)		Group 2: Countries without statutory minimum wages (Ν₂ = 9)
Australia	Luxembourg	Austria
Belgium	Netherlands	Denmark
Canada	New Zealand	Finland
Czech Republic	Poland	Germany
Estonia	Portugal	Iceland
France	Slovak Republic	Italy
Greece	Spain	Norway
Hungary	Turkey	Sweden
Ireland	UK	Switzerland
Japan	USA*
Korea
Classification of group 1 according to youth rates
Group 1A: Countries with minimum wages and youth rates		Group 1B: Countries with uniform minimum wages
Australia	New Zealand	Belgium	Hungary
Belgium	Portugal	Canada	Japan
Greece	Slovak Republic	Czech Republic	Korea
Ireland	Turkey	Estonia	Poland
Luxembourg	UK	France	Spain
Netherlands		Greece	USA

*USA is considered in our data as a country without youth minimum wages, since the lower rates are associated with job tenure. When we include the USA in the data as a country with uniform minimum wages, our results are virtually identical.