, 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 …

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 …

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … 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 …

from employers to employees, employment also falls. Our results indicate that a 10% increase in payroll taxes lowered … formal employment by between 4% and 5%. In addition, we find some evidence of less shifting and larger disemployment effects …

Using administrative employment data from the state of Washington, we use short-duration longitudinal panels to study …

influence both their ability to find employment and their potential legal wages relative to illegal sources of income, in turn … any reduced employment in this population due to the minimum wage. These reductions in returns to incarcerations are …

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 …