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 …

used or can be used to increase economic self-sufficiency by increasing earnings, including mandating higher wages … place in the United States, including minimum and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, wage subsidies, and school …-to-work programs. Finally, it considers alternative policies that have recently been proposed. -- Minimum wages ; living wages ; earned …

Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects … are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and … diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial longer-run effects could arise if minimum wages increase skill acquisition …

wages that remains unexplained after including a wide array of proxies for productivity. What is absent from the residual … any directly observable measure of productivity with which to adjust differentials in wages in trying to infer whether a … with wages. Any of the variables that differ across groups and are unobserved in the residual wage regression approach …

, 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 …

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 … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …

Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … out analyses of the impacts of these city minimum wages, as specified in a pre-analysis plan (PAP) that was registered on … report results updating the data through 2018; our final paper will add another year of evidence on minimum wages. For …

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