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

effects of living wage laws and find evidence consistent with tradeoffs between wages and employment …We estimate the effects of living wage laws on wages of low-wage workers, focusing on the timing of policy, spurious …

I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …

A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … correlated with minimum wage increases. They argue that using "local controls" establishes that higher minimum wages do not … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …

used to boost employment - hiring credits by reducing labor costs for employers, and worker subsidies by raising the … hiring credits targeting employment of disadvantaged workers, and worker subsidies targeting low-income families. Hiring …