We study the effects of immigration on the diversity of consumption choices. Data from California in the 1990s indicate … that immigration is associated with fewer stand-alone retail stores, and a greater number of large and in particular big …-box retailers - evidence that likely contradicts a diversity-enhancing effect of immigration. In contrast, focusing on the …

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 …

productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … deferred wages. We find a productivity premium for marriage equal to that of the wage premium, and a productivity premium for …

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 …

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 …