the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …

the unemployment rate and the real minimum wage; sticks are measured by felony arrests, police force and New York City …

of the minimum. A concomitant of the estimation procedure is joint estimation of market wage and employment functions …

. In the more recent work, attention has shifted to effects on unemployment in low-wage demographic groups, such as … distinction between minimum wage effects on employment and those on unemployment. The purpose of this paper is to explore the … analytical distinction between employment and unemployment effects in the hope of providing some understanding of the …

We assess the effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, and labor force … a negative effect on the unemployment rate, on the labor force participation, or on the labor market transitions …

show that a binding minimum wage -- while leading to unemployment -- is nevertheless desirable if the government values … redistribution toward low wage workers and if unemployment induced by the minimum wage hits the lowest surplus workers first. This …