Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on … over four key "epochs" of minimum wage policy changes since 1979. Declines in the real minimum wage during the 1980s slowed … to 1998 and 1998 to 2007 meant that the minimum wage was less important over those time spans. Since 2007, several states …