Dube, Lester, and Reich (2010) argue that state-level minimum wage variation can be correlated with economic shocks …, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … to control for economic shocks that are potentially correlated with minimum wage changes. We use, instead, multi …

This paper presents and describes a new database of major minimum wage and collective bargaining reforms covering 26 … implemented during the 1980s and 1990s. In our empirical application, we find that minimum wage reforms have a medium-run positive …-à-vis minimum wage reforms). …

We examine the impact of increasing minimum wage on employment by exploiting variation in the age-dependent National … Minimum Wage (NMW) in the UK. We extend the Regression Discontinuity model to evaluate the procyclicality of employment effect … conditions. The results suggest that the positive employment effect of increasing minimum wage is strongly procyclical, i.e. is …

Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job … 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage increases lead to substantial declines in existing and new vacancy … postings in occupations with a larger share of workers who earn close to the prevailing minimum wage. We estimate that a 10 …

Using a unique data set and a novel identification strategy, we estimate the effect of minimum wage increases on job … 2005-2018, we find that state-level minimum wage increases lead to substantial declines in existing and new vacancy … postings in occupations with a larger share of workers who earn close to the prevailing minimum wage. We estimate that a 10 …