and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage …-level data, we present evidence that minimum wage changes have significant adverse effects on employment in the Eastern and …

, 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 …

sub-minimum workers as a group lost average earnings, hours and employment compared to other workers. The adverse … employment effect occurred both through a higher probability of transition from employment to non-employment and through a … decreased probability of transition from non-employment to employment. …

passthrough appears to be key for explaining employment effects of minimum wages. …This paper studies the price and employment response of firms to the introduction of a nation-wide minimum wage in … employment. These decisions are strongly interrelated: Firms that increased prices relatively more often also showed a less …

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 …

This paper investigates the effects of the introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany on the wages and … employment of migrants. Migrants are an overrepresented group in the low-wage sector and can be expected to particularly benefit … evidence to evaluate the impact of the minimum wage introduction in 2015 on hourly wages, monthly salaries, working hours and …

China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We … minimum wage increases raise the wages of otherwise low-wage workers by a little less than half (41%) of the minimum wage … significant but very small wage spillovers for those whose wages are just above the new minimum wage, but they are effectively …