We analyze and assess new evidence on employment dynamics from a new data source the National Establishment Time Series … (NETS). The NETS offers advantages over existing data sources for studying employment dynamics, including tracking business … full decomposition of employment change into its six constituent processes, including job creation and destruction stemming …

used or can be used to increase economic self-sufficiency by increasing earnings, including mandating higher wages … place in the United States, including minimum and living wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, wage subsidies, and school …-to-work programs. Finally, it considers alternative policies that have recently been proposed. -- Minimum wages ; living wages ; earned …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

. The combination of these findings is consistent with rising polarization in which employment and wages expand for high … women. I also find that the composition-adjusted real wages of high school dropouts has caught up with high school graduates …