We argue in this paper that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important … interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of … employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state-year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a …

the minimum wage, including wages, hours, employment, and ultimately labor income, representing the central margins of … surprisingly, higher-wage workers are little affected. Although wages of low-wage workers increase , their hours and employment … minimum wages, attempting to understand the vigorous support of labor unions for minimum wage increases. Using the same …

critique the existing research on the effects of living wages on wages, employment, and family income, emphasizing common … goal of living wages is to reduce poverty, yet they may fail to do so because of disemployment effects. We summarize and … as well as employment losses for the least-skilled although there is disagreement about the employment effects but on net …

We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …

employment for teens and young adults, with elasticities in the range -0.1 to -0.2. In addition, we find that subminimum wages …In Neumark and Wascher (1992), we present findings supporting the earlier consensus that minimum wages reduce …

on minimum wage effects on employment, most of which comes from time-series data. Our estimates of the elasticities of … teen and young-adult employment-to-population ratios fall primarily in the range -0.1 to -0.2, similar to the consensus … legislatures have moderated the disemployment effects of minimum wages …

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 …

Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects … are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and … diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial longer-run effects could arise if minimum wages increase skill acquisition …

have two findings to report. First, the data collected by CK appear to indicate greater employment variation over the eight …-month period between their surveys than do the payroll data. For example, in the full sample the standard deviation of employment … change in CK's data is three times as large as that in the payroll data. Second, estimates of the employment effect of the …

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 …