While overall production of the manufacturing industry has contracted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, total employment … levels have not undergone a major adjustment.Unlike the service industry, which saw an immediate reduction in employment, the … manufacturing industry has more-or-less maintained the scale of its employment. This property of manufacturing employment has served …

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 …

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 …

-72, including women. In addition, minimum wage hikes are associated with an increase in informal employment. …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

We take advantage of a natural experiment in the minimum wage setting in Russia to study the employment consequences of … effect of this reform, we follow the approach proposed by David Card and compare changes in employment rates and other labor … adverse effects of the 2007 hike in the minimum wage on employment. They are mostly visible in lower employment rates among …

Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been targeted for using … overly simplistic trend controls and for neglecting the potential impact of wage minima on employment growth. This paper … investigates whether such considerations call into question findings of statistically insignificant employment effects reported in …

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …

This paper presents new evidence on the employment effects of a large increase in agricultural minimum wages in South … Africa using anonymized tax data. We add to the minimum wage literature by differentiating employment effects resulting from …/17 and difference-in-difference models, our results show that employment decreased by approximately 14 percentage points …

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