goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common …

Many employers link wages at the firm’s establishments outside of the home region to the level at headquarters …. Multinationals that anchor-to-the headquarters also transmit wage changes arising from shocks to minimum wages and exchange rates in … headquarter wages, but not after a temporary (exchange rate-induced) one. We show this using data on 1,060 multinationals …

heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these … effects, with teen employment elasticities near −0.3. We conclude that the evidence still shows that minimum wages pose a … tradeoff of higher wages for some against job losses for others, and that policymakers need to bear this tradeoff in mind when …

1990s affected the labor market. Our estimates indicate that formal wages fall by between 1.4% and 2.3% as a result of a 10 … of less-skill workers by reducing social security taxes may be effective in Latin American countries, where minimum wages …

influence both their ability to find employment and their potential legal wages relative to illegal sources of income, in turn … on average the effect of higher wages, drawing at least some released prisoners into the legal labor market, dominates … are unchanged, supporting our framing that minimum wages affect crime that serves as a source of income. The availability …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …

, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the frequency distribution of hourly wages using 138 prominent state … no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages. However, we do find some evidence of …