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 …

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

, 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. …

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 …

A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this … relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate … employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it …