Foreign-owned establishments in the United States pay higher wages, on average, than domestically-owned establishments … wages in favor of foreign establishments remains even when these other determinants of wages are taken into account. Within … manufacturing, the extent of foreign ownership in an industry in a state had no impact on wages in 1987 when these other factors …

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 …

spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county pairs … sharing a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant industry. Using …

Despite the persistent fears that production abroad by U.S. multinationals reduces employment at home, there has, in … fact, been almost no aggregate shift of production or employment to foreign countries. Some continuing shifts to foreign … associated with lower employment at home for a given level of production. The reason is that U.S. multinationals tend to allocate …

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 …

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 …

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 …