Results indicate that setting the MW policy is a complex and difficult procedure. The
negative spillover effect of MW on employment in some sectors might outweigh its positive
effect on AW; thus exacerbating the unemployment phenomenon that Egypt already suffers
from. Moreover, conventionally, MWs reduce employment among workers, but stronger on
low-skilled workers (Goldfarb 1974; Neumark and Wascher 2007). Also, the disemployment
effect of MW is higher for the youth, especially due to their low productivity (Brown, Gilroy,
and Kohen 1983; Ghellab 1998; Perwira, Suryahadi, and Widyanti 2001).