Derenoncourt, Ellora; Noelke, Clemens; Weil, David - 2021
Low unionization rates, a falling real federal minimum wage, and prevalent non-competes characterize low-wage jobs in … institute or raise company-wide minimum wages for their employees, sometimes in response to public pressure. To what extent do … policies? In this paper, we study recent minimum wages by Amazon, Walmart, Target, and Costco using data from millions of …