Policy researchers often have to estimate the future effect of imposing a policy in a particular location. There is often evidence on the effects of similar policies in other jurisdictions, but no information on the effects of the policy in the jurisdiction in question. And the policy may have...

Die Einführung des gesetzlichen Mindestlohns zum 1. Januar 2015 wurde zum Teil heftig kritisiert. Besonders der Hotellerie- und Gastronomiebereich sah gravierende Probleme auf sich zukommen. Die Erwartungen dieser Branche wurden in einer empirischen Untersuchung aufgrund einer umfassenden...

Ein allgemeiner, gesetzlicher Mindestlohn ist nach den Bundestagswahlen 2013 ein ganz wichtiges politisches Thema in Deutschland. So macht die SPD vor den Koalitionsverhandlungen mit den Unionsparteien die Einführung einer branchenübergreifenden Lohnuntergrenze von 8,50 Euro brutto pro Stunde...

Der gesetzliche Mindestlohn wurde zum 1. Januar 2015 eingeführt, nachdem zuvor die möglichen Auswirkungen kontrovers diskutiert wurden.1 Der Beitrag zieht auf Basis der inzwischen verfügbaren Daten und einer Vielzahl von Forschungsergebnissen Bilanz. In der Diskussion standen vor allem...

Living wage campaigns have succeeded in about 100 jurisdictions in the United States but have also been unsuccessful in numerous cities. These unsuccessful campaigns provide a better control group or counterfactual for estimating the effects of living wage laws than the broader set of all cities...

We study the effects of minimum wages and the EITC in the post-welfare reform era. For the minimum wage, the evidence points to disemployment effects that are concentrated among young minority men. For young women, there is little evidence that minimum wages reduce employment, with the exception...

Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of the economy: medium and large-scale firms v. small firms...

This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...

We use county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum wage changes on low-wage labor markets. Our empirical approach is similar to the literature that has used state-level panel data to estimate minimum-wage impacts, with the...