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 …

, increases in tipped minimum wages can reduce employment or hours among restaurant workers (Neumark and Yen, 2023), and these … (which ignores employment variation but incorporates hours variation). We find that tipped minimum wages raise hourly …

. whites. We study not only teenagers - the focus of much of the minimum wage-employment literature - but also other low …-skill groups. We focus primarily on employment, which has been the prime concern with the minimum wage research literature. We find …

from the rest of the country. The minimum wage did not affect employment in most industries but exerted a negative impact … on restaurants' employment, with an elasticity of -0.8. Next, using variation in exposure to the minimum wage across … establishments and workers within the Twin Cities, we find employment effects that are half as large as those from the time series …

We assess how minimum wage effects on restaurant employment in the U.S. vary with labor market size and monopsony power … reduces adverse employment effects of minimum wages. Nonetheless, accounting for city size, lower job market fluidity is … linked to weaker negative employment effects, consistent with search models. By contrast, traditional concentration measures …

effect in April 2024, on employment in the fast food sector. In unadjusted data from the Quarterly Census of Employment and … Wages, we find that employment in California's fast food sector declined by 2.7 percent relative to employment in the fast … increases this differential decline to 3.2 percent, while netting out the equivalent employment changes in non …