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 …

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 …

; race ; ethnicity ; immigrants …

-owned firms are more likely to internalize the costs to the community of decisions to reduce employment and hence help to insulate … cities from adverse economic shocks. We test this argument by examining how establishment-level employment responses to … corporate headquarters and, to a lesser extent, from small, locally-owned chains. -- Local ownership ; employment shocks …

heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a tradeoff of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of … in urban poverty. -- living wage ; wages ; employment ; poverty …

We measure the impact of labor market referral networks defined by residential neighborhoods on re-employment following … market networks are linked not just to more rapid re-employment following mass layoffs but to re-employment specifically at …