spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …

observations on most businesses located in California. The evidence indicates that enterprise zones do not increase employment. We … also find no shift of employment toward the lower-wage workers targeted by enterprise zone incentives. We conclude that the …

.5 percent below the 1990 peak and a mere one percent above the 1993 trough. Employment rates tell a similar story. Our …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of … view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the …

, we exploit the recently developed Longitudinal Business Database (LBD), which contains annual observations on employment …, the employment-weighted mean volatility of firm growth rates has declined by more than 40% since 1982. This result stands … volatility among privately held firms. This pattern holds in every major industry group. Employment shifts toward older …

We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …

Employment rates in Puerto Rico range from 55 to 65 percent of U.S. rates during the past thirty years. This huge … employment shortfall holds for men and women, cuts across all education groups, and is deeper for persons without a college … educated workers. Motivated by these facts, we identify several factors that undermine employment growth and business …

We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source -- the National Establishment Time … Series (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking … California, a full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction …