This paper presents evidence on the employment effects of recent minimum wage increases from a pre-specified research …

We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of … reduced employment in tradable sectors. In contrast to our bunching-based estimates, we show that some conventional studies … can produce misleading inference due to spurious changes in employment higher up in the wage distribution …

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 …

influence both their ability to find employment and their potential legal wages relative to illegal sources of income, in turn … any reduced employment in this population due to the minimum wage. These reductions in returns to incarcerations are …

This paper presents early evidence on the employment effects of state minimum wage increases enacted between January …-committed analysis of the minimum wage changes scheduled for coming years. Through 2015, we estimate that employment among young adults … changes' effects and for drawing strong conclusions regarding how minimum wage increases affect employment in this decade …

We estimate the minimum wage's effects on low-skilled workers' employment and income trajectories. Our approach …, negative effects on the employment and income growth of targeted workers. Lost income reflects contributions from employment …'s effects on aggregate employment. Over the late 2000s, the average effective minimum wage rose by 30 percent across the United …

Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment …

This paper argues that the debt forgiveness provided by the U.S. consumer bankruptcy system helped stabilize employment … significantly smaller declines in non-tradable employment and larger increases in unsecured debt write-downs compared to states with …, and develop a general equilibrium model to recover the aggregate employment effect. The model yields three key results …

of its effect on employment and unemployment. Our discussion of the theory emphasizes recent work using two-sector and … heterogeneous-worker models. We then summarize and evaluate the large literature on employment and unemployment effects of the … minimum on teenagers. Finally, we survey the evidence of the effect of the minimum wage on adult employment, and on employment …

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 …