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The effect of minimum wages on wages and employment: county-level estimates for the United States

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - 2008

We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum … given time period. Our evidence does not suggest that minimum wages reduce employment in the overall restaurant …-and-bar sector, after controls for trends in sector employment at the county level are incorporated in the model. Employment in this …

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Empowerment zones, neighborhood change and owner occupied housing

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2008

This paper examines the effects of a generous, spatially-targeted economic development policy (the federal Empowerment Zone program) on local neighborhood characteristics and on the neighborhood quality of life, taking into account the interactions amongst the policy, changes in neighborhood...

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Neighborhood dynamics and the housing price effects of spatially targeted economic development policy

Krupka, Douglas J.; Noonan, Douglas S. - 2009

Neighborhoods are the result of a complicated interplay between residential choice, housing supply and the influences of the larger metropolitan system on its constituent parts. We model this interplay as a system of reduced-form equations in order to examine the effects of a generous spatially...

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Minimum wage increases under straightened circumstances

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2011

handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of …

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