employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

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 …

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

, 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 …

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …

-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after …