Neumark, David; Salas, J.M. Ian; Wascher, William - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new studies claiming that the standard panel data approach used in much of the "new minimum wage research" is flawed because it fails to account for spatial heterogeneity. These...