increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance. We also find some evidence that higher welfare benefits had …

employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …

, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …

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

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages—in the United States and other countries … consensus now exists about the overall effects on low-wage employment of an increase in the minimum wage. However, the oft …-stated assertion that this recent research fails to support the traditional view that the minimum wage reduces the employment of low …

We estimate the effects of Wal-Mart stores on county-level retail employment and earnings, accounting for endogeneity … employment results indicate that a Wal-Mart store opening reduces county-level retail employment by about 150 workers, implying … retail employment. The payroll results indicate that Wal-Mart store openings lead to declines in county-level retail earnings …