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What's Across the Border? Re-Evaluating the Cross-Border Evidence on Minimum Wage Effects
Jha, Priyaranjan; Neumark, David; Rodríguez López, Antonio - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
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 …
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Minimum Wages and Poverty : New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates
Burkhauser, Richard V.; McNichols, Drew; Sabia, Joseph J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim. Using data spanning nearly four decades from the March Current Population Survey, and a dynamic difference-in-differences approach, we find that a 10 percent increase in the...
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Minimum Wages and Labor Markets in the Twin Cities
Karabarbounis, Loukas; Lise, Jeremy; Nath, Anusha - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
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 …
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Do Higher Tipped Minimum Wages Reduce Race, Ethnic, or Gender Earnings Gaps for Restaurant Workers?
Neumark, David; Wohl, Emma - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
, 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 …
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Firm Responses to State Hiring Subsidies : Regression Discontinuity Evidence from a Tax Credit Formula
Hyman, Benjamin G.; Freedman, Matthew; Khanna, Shantanu; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We examine firm responses to location-based hiring subsidies. We leverage institutional features of the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC), a large-scale business incentive program that incorporates best practices from prior job creation policies. The CCTC award selection procedure combines...
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Minimum Wage Effects Within Census Based Statistical Areas : A Matched Pair Cross-Border Analysis
Taylor, Garrett C.; West, James E. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using monthly data from major U.S. metropolitan areas that span state borders, we estimate the elasticity of employment …
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Supply, Demand, Institutions, and Firms : A Theory of Labor Market Sorting and the Wage Distribution
Haanwinckel, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a general equilibrium framework with firm and worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and task-based production to quantify the long-run effects of education, biased demand shocks, and minimum wage. I take it to Brazilian data for 1998 and 2012 and find that (i) supply and...
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Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of wage theft -- wage payments below the statutory minimum wage -- falls disproportionately on various demographic groups following minimum wage increases. For most racial and ethnic groups at most ages we find...
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The Minimum Wage and Inequality Between Groups
Blau, Francine D.; Cohen, Isaac; Comey, Matthew L.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We use wage data from the Current Population Survey Merged Outgoing Rotation Group (CPS MORG) to study the effect of state and federal minimum wage policies on gender, race, and ethnic inequality throughout the wage distribution, focusing on lower-tail inequality between men and women, Blacks...
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The Race Between Education, Technology, and Institutions
Vogel, Jonathan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
I generalize the canonical model--in which relative supply and demand for worker skills shape the skill premium--incorporating monopsony power, minimum wages, and unemployment. I estimate the extended canonical model using national data and, separately, state-level data. I show that...
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