We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of … data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states …. They argue that using "local controls" establishes that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment of less … analyses and conclusions, and argue that the best evidence still points to job loss from minimum wages for very low …

responded to the overtime provisions of the Act by adjusting straight-time wages, but that this adjustment did not completely … offset the overtime provisions. Employers in the south were less able to adjust straight-time wages because the minimum wage … provisions of the Act raised wages much more in the south than in the north. The fall in southern hours was therefore greater …