wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

or the presence of envelope wages appear to be associated with lower job losses. Taken together, our findings imply an …

, in which firms' job offer and workers' job acceptance decisions are disentangled. Minimum wages reduce job offer … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …

below what they would earn in the absence of minimum wages. Moreover, we establish that in the absence of a separate class … of agents (i.e. capitalists) minimum wages cannot increase the incomes of employed workers even when there are decreasing …

minimum wages and firm variety in the U.S. restaurant and retail-trade industries. To explain this finding, we construct a …

, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …