Following up on “European country data on the minimum wage,” here are the data for eighteen Western European countries in table form.
Or here is the Excel spreadsheet.
Sources:
“List of sovereign states in Europe by minimum wage,” Wikipedia.
“List of countries by unemployment rate,” Wikipedia.
Both viewed 9 December 2013.
Related:
My video-lecture on the moral, economic, and political arguments for and against minimum wage laws.
Surprising data. One would think with the many economic socialist principles in Northern Europe that minimum wage would be one of them. With the median unemployment rate half of those with a minimum wage in place, it must be working.