The dataset contains data and code used in the article, Baumann, Arne: "What explains differences in minimum wage growth in EU member staes?", Journal of Economics and Statistics, No. 1-2, 2025.

The data file contains all variables used in the analyses (macroeconomic data, institutional information on minimum wage setting, information on economic policy orientation and elections) on 21 EU member states with national minimum wages for the time period 2000 to 2020.

The code files contain all code used in the analyses. Part 1 contains mostly code for descriptive analyses. Part 2 contains code for imputation and multivariate analyses.

Technical requirements: Stata, Version 16