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 …

mandating higher wages, subsidizing employment, or increasing productivity. The evidence indicates that the minimum wage is an … ineffective policy to promote economic self-sufficiency, entailing employment losses without any corresponding distributional … benefits via higher wages. In contrast, living wage laws appear to present a more favorable tradeoff. Labor supply incentives …

This paper presents evidence on the employment effects of recent minimum wage increases from a pre-specified research … data to which the pre-specified research design can be applied, evidence of disemployment effects of minimum wages is often …

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 …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …

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 …