While there has been extensive research on the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages, there has been little on the impact on firm performance, prices, and quality. Exploiting the staggered changes in minimum wages in the US over 2000 to 2008 and using comprehensive data on the hotel...

We study the impact of a mandated increase in minimum wages on consumer perceptions of multiple dimensions of service quality in the restaurant industry. When faced with higher minimum wages, firms might reduce employees, resulting in poorer consumer service. Alternatively, higher-paid workers...