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 …

have two findings to report. First, the data collected by CK appear to indicate greater employment variation over the eight …-month period between their surveys than do the payroll data. For example, in the full sample the standard deviation of employment … change in CK's data is three times as large as that in the payroll data. Second, estimates of the employment effect of the …

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 … that granted Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status to China. We find that the China shock affects U.S. employment …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states …. They argue that using "local controls" establishes that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment of less …

The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. Less well … summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from “it is now well-established that … higher minimum wages do not reduce employment,” to “the evidence is very mixed with effects centered on zero so there is no …