applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …

incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective …, in which firms’ job offer and workers’ job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer …

We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have … small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime …

and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …

heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a tradeoff of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that …

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … negative employment effects of minimum wages. In addition, among the papers we view as providing the most credible evidence … positive employment effects of minimum wages, especially from those studies that focus on the broader groups (rather than a …

that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception of high school dropouts. In contrast, evidence strongly suggests … that the EITC boosts employment of young women (although not teenagers). We also explore how minimum wages and the EITC …We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence …

This paper provides a meta-analysis of 55 empirical studies estimating the employment effects of minimum wages in 15 … industrial countries. It strongly confirms the notion that the effects of minimum wages are heterogeneous between countries. As … possible sources of heterogeneity, it considers the benefit replacement ratio, employment protection and the collective …

wages to identify the effects of reducing or eliminating the tip credit on employment and earnings in the U.S. restaurant … industry. Using data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages and the Current Population Survey, we find that a … reduction in the tip credit increases weekly earnings but reduces employment in the full services restaurant industry and for …