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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 business … full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming …
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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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employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …
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, 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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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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We use a new database, the National Establishment Time Series (NETS), to revisit the debate about the role of small businesses in job creation. Birch (e.g., 1987) argued that small firms are the most important source of job creation in the U.S. economy. But Davis et al. (1996a) argued that this...
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