, 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 …

Changes in the legislation in the mid-80s in Portugal provide remarkably good conditions for analysis of the employment … well as in new firms and those going out of business, using a count regression model applied to proportions. Employment … on youth employment without decomposing it by type of worker flow. …

show that on average employment and revenues fall, wages increase, while firms' productivity, workers' average quality, the … the firms' productivity distribution. Employment, revenues, productivity and the profit margin are positively or not …

affect employment opportunities in automatable jobs in the UK for low-skilled low-wage workers. Overall, I find that … increasing the minimum wage decreases the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled low-wage workers, and increases the …

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 …

This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether … minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence … simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job …

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

We examine the impacts of the minimum wage on employment using the minimum-wage hike induced by the introduction of … find that the minimum-wage hike raised the wages of low-wage workers, but reduced the employment of less-educated young men …