We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …

We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate … that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big …-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a diversity-enhancing effect of immigration. In contrast, focusing on the …

the minimum wage, including wages, hours, employment, and ultimately labor income, representing the central margins of … surprisingly, higher-wage workers are little affected. Although wages of low-wage workers increase , their hours and employment … minimum wages, attempting to understand the vigorous support of labor unions for minimum wage increases. Using the same …

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 …

critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common … goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … as well as employment losses for the least-skilled although there is disagreement about the employment effects but on net …

, motherhood, and wages. We find that heterogeneity leads to biased estimates of the quot;directquot; effects of marriage and … motherhood on wages (i.e., effects net of experience and tenure); first-difference estimates reveal no direct effect of marriage … or motherhood on women's wages. We also find statistical evidence that experience and tenure nay be endogenous variables …

We investigate the impact of union strength on changes in nonunion wages and employment. The prevailing model in this … area is the threat model, which predicts that increases in union strength cause increases in nonunion wages and decreases … in nonunion employment. In testing the threat model, we are also testing two alternatives, the crowding and complements …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …

expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …

on minimum wage effects on employment, most of which comes from time-series data. Our estimates of the elasticities of … teen and young-adult employment-to-population ratios fall primarily in the range -0.1 to -0.2, similar to the consensus … legislatures have moderated the disemployment effects of minimum wages …