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The Employment and Redistributive Effects of Reducing or Eliminating Minimum Wage Tip Credits
Neumark, David; Yen, Maysen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
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 …
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Licence to Dine : 007 and the Real Exchange Rate
Craig, Lee A.; Treme, Julianne; Weiss, Thomas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We constructed a time series of menu prices for the identifiable restaurants at which James Bond dined in France and the UK that yields one of the few international price series representing luxury services. This series enabled us to calculate a real exchange rate based on prices pertinent to...
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Ownership, Agency and Wages : An Examination in the Fast Food Industry
Krueger, Alan B. - 1990
This paper estimates the difference in compensation between company-owned and franchisee-owned fast food restaurants. The contrast is of interest because contractual arrangements give managers of company-owned outlets less of an incentive to monitor and supervise employees. Estimates based on...
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Sex Discrimination in Restaurant Hiring : An Audit Study
Neumark, David - 1995
This paper reports on a small-scale audit study that investigates sex discrimination in restaurant hiring. Comparably matched pairs of men and women applied for jobs as waiters and waitresses at 65 restaurants in Philadelphia. The 130 applications led to 54 interviews and 39 job offers. The...
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Comparing Real Wages
Ashenfelter, Orley C. - 2012
provide my own preliminary analysis of a decade long project designed to measure the wages of workers doing the same job in …
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Hospitals As Hotels : The Role of Patient Amenities in Hospital Demand
Goldman, Dana - 2008
Amenities such as good food, attentive staff, and pleasant surroundings may play an important role in hospital demand. We use a marketing survey to measure amenities at hospitals in greater Los Angeles and analyze the choice behavior of Medicare pneumonia patients in this market. We find that...
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The Drivers of Social Preferences : Evidence from a Nationwide Tipping Field Experiment
Chandar, Bharat - 2019
Even though social preferences affect nearly every facet of life, there exist many open questions on the economics of social preferences in markets. We leverage a unique opportunity to generate a large data set to inform the who's, what's, where's, and when's of social preferences through the...
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Covid-19, Shelter-In Place Strategies and Tipping
Cui, Zhihan - 2020
Social distancing via shelter-in-place strategies has emerged as the most effective way to combat Covid-19. In the United States, choices about such policies are made by individual states. Here we show that the policy choice made by one state influences the incentives that other states face to...
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Consumer Reviews and Regulation : Evidence from NYC Restaurants
Farronato, Chiara; Zervas, Georgios - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...
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Who Paid Los Angeles' Minimum Wage? A Side-by-Side Minimum Wage Experiment in Los Angeles County
Esposito, Christopher; Leamer, Edward E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In the restaurant industry, the incidence of an increase in the minimum wage may fall on restaurant owners, customers, landlords, and/or employees. We analyze the first two in this study, with implications for the incidence borne by landlords and employees. We exploit a geographical...
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