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Revisiting the Minimum Wage-Employment Debate : Throwing Out the Baby with the Bathwater?

Neumark, David - 2013

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...

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More on Recent Evidence on the Effects of Minimum Wages in the United States

Neumark, David - 2014

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states (or other regions) that adopt or increase the minimum wage. In recent research, Dube et al. (2010) and Allegretto et al. (2011) argue that past U.S. research is flawed because it...

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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator

Cengiz, Doruk - 2019

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. To implement our approach, we estimate the effect of the minimum wage on the...

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Minimum Wage Increases and Individual Employment Trajectories

jardim, Ekaterina - 2018

Using administrative employment data from the state of Washington, we use short-duration longitudinal panels to study the impact of Seattle's minimum wage ordinance on individuals employed in low-wage jobs immediately before a wage increase. We draw counterfactual observations using...

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Minimum Wage Increases, Wages, and Low-Wage Employment : Evidence from Seattle

Jardim, Ekaterina - 2018

This paper evaluates the wage, employment, and hours effects of the first and second phase-in of the Seattle Minimum Wage Ordinance, which raised the minimum wage from $9.47 to as much as $11 in 2015 and to as much as $13 in 2016. Using a variety of methods to analyze employment in all sectors...

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The Minimum Wage and the Great Recession : Evidence of Effects on the Employment and Income Trajectories of Low-Skilled Workers

Clemens, Jeffrey P. - 2014

We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach exploits two dimensions of the data we analyze. First, we compare workers in states that were bound by recent increases in the federal minimum wage to workers in states that were not....

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When Do Living Wages Bite?

Adams, Scott J.; Neumark, David - 2021

Many features of living wage laws may influence the strength of their effects on wages and employment of low-skill individuals. Echoing past research, business assistance living wage laws generate stronger wage increases and employment reductions than contractor-only laws. But broader...

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A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - 2021

We estimate the employment effects of changes in national minimum wages using a pooled cross-section time-series data set comprising sixteen OECD countries for the period 1975-1997. We pay particular attention to the impact of cross-country differences in minimum wage systems and in other labor...

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Unemployment in the Great Recession : A Comparison of Germany, Canada and the United States

Hoffmann, Florian - 2014

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … did not change substantially in Germany, increased and remained at relatively high levels in the United States, and … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …

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Mortgage Rates, Household Balance Sheets, and the Real Economy

Keys, Benjamin J. - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of lower mortgage rates on household balance sheets and other economic outcomes during the housing crisis. We use proprietary loan-level panel data matched to consumer credit records using borrowers' Social Security numbers, which allows for accurate...

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