minimum wages depress employment, is not supported by the empirical findings in some labour markets. In this paper we present … employment, but which also allows for the possibility of a neutral or a positive effect. The model structure is based on labour … economic wisdom but in line with several recent studies, do not have a negative impact on employment. If anything, the …

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of … reduced employment in tradable sectors. In contrast to our bunching-based estimates, we show that some conventional studies … can produce misleading inference due to spurious changes in employment higher up in the wage distribution …

A new lifecycle of women's employment emerged with cohorts born in the 1950s. For prior cohorts, lifecycle employment … new lifecycle of employment is initially high and flat, there is a dip in the middle and a phasing out that is more … and greater labor force recovery for those who take paid or unpaid leave. Increased employment of women in their older …

cohorts. It would appear that employment at older ages could stagnate or even decrease. But several other factors will be …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and other … wide range of existing estimates and, accordingly, a lack of consensus about the overall effects on low-wage employment of … view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low-wage workers is clearly incorrect. A sizable majority of the …

although increases in minimum wages have small net effects on overall teen employment rates, such increases raise the … the small net disemployment effects for teenagers as a group, there are significant enrollment and employment shifts …

, the employment rate of teenage workers rose, while their school enrollment rate fell …

employment. We argue that the minimum wage will impact employment over time, through changes in growth rather than an immediate … drop in relative employment levels. We conduct simulations showing that commonly-used specifications in this literature … panels of administrative employment data, we find that the minimum wage reduces job growth over a period of several years …

of its effect on employment and unemployment. Our discussion of the theory emphasizes recent work using two-sector and … heterogeneous-worker models. We then summarize and evaluate the large literature on employment and unemployment effects of the … minimum on teenagers. Finally, we survey the evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on adult employment, and on employment …

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 …