I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …

employment effects, in our analysis of California cities we find a hint of negative employment effects, but the estimates are …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

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 …

since the mid-1990s, French unemployment and employment rates show stability or improvement as well as strong convergence to … worsening employment opportunities for vulnerable workers. Making work pay for the bottom third of the workforce should be a top …

employment among low-skilled individuals by roughly 2.5 percentage points. The effects of smaller statutory increases and … relationship between minimum wage increases and employment is quite strongly negative in states that began enacting substantial …

employment among low-skilled individuals by just over 2 percentage points. The effects of smaller increases are more variable and … with employment among low-skilled individuals, while relatively early and large increases are strongly negatively … correlated with employment. Analysis of future data will be needed to determine whether this apparent difference between short …

have reduced employment among low-skilled population groups by just under 1.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the …

negative effects on employment flows, but not levels. Separations and accessions fall among restaurants and teens, especially …

We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these … ; employment ; control groups …