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The econometrics and economics of the employment effects of minimum wages : getting from known unknowns to known knowns

Neumark, David - 2018

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …

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Effects of recent minimum wage policies in California and nationwide : initial results from a pre-specified analysis plan

Neumark, David; Yen, Maysen - 2020

employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …

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What's across the border? : re-evaluating the cross-border evidence on minimum wage effects

Jha, Priyaranjan; Neumark, David; Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2022

, 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. …

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People versus machines : the impact of minimum wages on automatable jobs

Lordan, Grace; Neumark, David - 2018

We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …

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The short-run effects of the minimum wage on employment and labor market participation : evidence from an individual-level panel

Boffy-Ramirez, Ernest - 2019

Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (2014) succinctly summarize the empirical challenges researchers of the minimum wage face: "the identification of minimum wage effects requires both a sufficiently sharp focus on potentially affected workers and the construction of a valid counterfactual control group...

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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health

Wehby, George; Dave, Dhaval; Kaestner, Robert - 2016

The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on...

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