Table 8 Country-specific questionnaires: adjustment channels and answer options
From: How do firms adjust to rises in the minimum wage? Survey evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Country | Adjustment channel | Country specific formulation of adjustment channel or question used to derive relevance of adjustment channel | Answer type |
|---|---|---|---|
LV, LT, HU | Number of employees | We had to lay people off | 1 |
EE, RO, PL | 2 | ||
SI | 3 | ||
BG | Number of employees | 4 | |
LV, LT, HU | Hiring | We were able to hire fewer people | 1 |
RO, PL | 2 | ||
SI | 3 | ||
EE | We could not replace empty positions | 2 | |
We were not able to open new job positions | |||
BG | n.a. | ||
LV, LT, HU | Prices | We had to increase product prices | 1 |
EE, RO, PL | 2 | ||
SI | 3 | ||
BG | Price of main product/service | 4 | |
LV, LT, HU | Non-labour costs | We had to reduce non-labour costs | 1 |
EE, RO, PL | 2 | ||
RO | We had to reduce other costs | 2 | |
SI | 3 | ||
BG | Non-labour costs | 4 | |
LV, LT, HU, PL | Productivity | We increased productivity | 1 |
EE | We had to seek to improve the quality and scope of products through process innovation | 2 | |
We had to seek to increase productivity through organisational innovation | 2 | ||
We had to seek to increase productivity through process innovation | 2 | ||
BG | Labour productivity | 4 | |
RO, SI | n.a. | ||
EE, PL | Hours | We had to reduce working hours | 2 |
LV, LT, HU, RO, SI, SK, BG | n.a. | ||
LV | Wages above the minimum wage | We had to increase the wages of employees earning above the minimum wage level | 1 |
PL | We had to increase the wages of employees earning above the minimum wage level in order to keep the wage relations in the firm | 2 | |
EE | Did the increase in the minimum wage on 1 January 2014 make it necessary to raise wages or any other type of compensation for those employees in your company? | 5 | |
Please indicate the percentage of employees whose wages or other type of compensation increased in response to the rise in the minimum wage (including those who earned minimum wages and who earned higher wages before 1 January 2014) | % | ||
RO | In the event of a rise in the minimum wage, do you raise the wages of your employees earning more than the minimum wage? | 5 | |
Please specify the percentage of employees affected | % | ||
LT | Did the increase in the minimum wage on 1 January 2013 make it necessary to raise wages or any other type of compensation for those employees in your company who earned more than the minimum wage (who earn more than 1000Lt)? | 5 | |
Please indicate the percentage of employees whose wages or other type of compensation increased in response to the rise in the minimum wage (including those who earned minimum wages and who earned higher wages before 1 January 2013 | % | ||
SI | We also had to increase wages above the minimum wage | 3 | |
BG | Base wages of above minimum wage earners | 4 | |
Flexible wage components (bonuses, benefits etc.) | 4 |