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

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 …

on average the effect of higher wages, drawing at least some released prisoners into the legal labor market, dominates …

that the lack of job loss is not explained by labor-labor substitution at the bottom of the wage distribution. We also find …

supplies of labor services. The study finds that minimum-wage policy seems not to affect aggregate employment or average wages …

monopsony explanation by studying a key low-wage retail sector and using data on labor market concentration that covers the … entirety of the United States with fine spatial variation at the occupation-level. We find that more concentrated labor markets … concentration markets, minimum wage-induced employment changes become less negative as labor concentration increases, and are even …

multi-tier labor markets: abstract, routine high-skilled, routine middle-skilled, manual middle-skilled and manual low …