A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …

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. …

Am 1. Januar 2015 wurde in Deutschland der allgemeine gesetzliche Mindestlohn eingeführt. Wir identifizieren … Zurückhaltung in den Einstellungen zurückzuführen. Hochgerechnet hätten ohne den Mindestlohn 60.000 zusätzliche Jobs entstehen …

A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this … relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate … employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics and the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages datasets, and it …

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 …

This paper investigates the effects of the age-dependent minimum wage on youth employment flows in the Netherlands. The … younger ones. In or- der to grasp the size of these effects, I analyze monthly flows in and out of employment using … more likely to be affected by the discontinuities. The size of the effect also varies by the sector of employment, being …