Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl - 2020
China since its new minimum wage regulations in 2004 to estimate their impact on wages, wage spillovers, and employment. We … minimum wage increases raise the wages of otherwise low-wage workers by a little less than half (41%) of the minimum wage … significant but very small wage spillovers for those whose wages are just above the new minimum wage, but they are effectively …