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On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - Grupo de Estudos Monetários e Financeiros (GEMF), … - 2014
Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …
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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?
Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005
-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005032858
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677696
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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677699
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On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations
Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - 2014
Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095640
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Minimum Wages in Kenya
Andalon, Mabel; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … to median wage ratio could be associated with a decline in the share of formal employment of between 1.2-5.6 percentage … points and an increase of between 2.7-5.9 points in the share of self-employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761918
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761998
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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762344
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Employment effects of minimum wages
Neumark, David - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
The potential benefits of higher minimum wages come from the higher wages for affected workers, some of whom are in low-income families. The potential downside is that a higher minimum wage may discourage employers from using the low-wage, low-skill workers that minimum wages are intended to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884447