expansions and contractions of firms' employment) as well as along the extensive margin (job flows due to births and deaths of … firms). This paper uses 1992-2011 employment data from the {universe} of U.S. establishments to construct job flows at both … China shock is accounted for by either the increase in Chinese import penetration in the U.S., or by the U.S. policy change …

Recent policy debate on minimum wages has focused not only on raising the minimum wage, but on eliminating the tip … credit for restaurant workers. We use data on past variation in tip credits - or minimum wages for restaurant workers - to … minimum wages (smaller tip credits) reducing jobs among tipped restaurant workers, without earnings effects on those who …

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of …, 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 …

The disagreement among studies of the employment effects of minimum wages in the United States is well known. What is … economists even summarize the body of evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages. Summaries range from "it is now well …-established that higher minimum wages do not reduce employment," to "the evidence is very mixed with effects centered on zero so there …

We assess the effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, and labor force … fairly narrow subgroups where the policy has a large bite (e.g., teens). By exploiting 172 prominent minimum wages between … 1979 and 2019 we find that there is a very clear increase in average wages of workers in these groups following a minimum …

employment was recovering during the Covid recession. Leveraging the considerable variation in this drop across states, I use a … difference-in-differences event study design to estimate the macro employment effects. I find little impact of job gains from the …

find a hint of negative employment effects. Nationally, we find some evidence of disemployment effects for teens, but not …

industry. We find that CCTC awards increase employment among workers residing in both high income and low income communities …

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 …