paid at least the wages and benefits that are "prevailing" for similar work in or near the locality in which the project is … located, have been the focus of an extensive policy debate. We find that the relative wages of construction workers decline …

We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and … state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects ….S. States with low minimum wages (i.e., where the federal minimum wage is binding). The results are robust to instrumenting …