Lemos, Sara - In: Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy 4 (2005) 1, pp. 1425-1425
A number of recent empirical studies have found no evidence that the minimum wage adversely affects employment … employment and the minimum wage. We use a number of novel political variables as instruments to control for this source of … endogeneity. We exploit the personal characteristics of the politicians voting on minimum wage bills, their voting behavior and …