Raising the minimum wage has been advanced as complementary policy to comprehensive immigration reform to improve low﹕killed immigrants' economic well‐being. While adverse labor demand effects could undermine this goal, existing studies do not detect evidence of negative employment effects. We re﹊n...
Empirical investigation of employment effects of minimum wage legislation is a subject of continuing interest, judging by a growing number of studies. The older studies were concerned mainly with changes in employment in low-wage industries. In the more recent work, attention has shifted to effects...
A proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 by 2024 would increase the relative minimum wage – the ratio to the national median wage– to about .68. In Alabama and Mississippi, our two lowest-wage states, the relative minimum wage would rise to .77 and .85, respectively. Yet ...
Workers initially earning near the minimum wage are adversely affected by minimum wage increases, while, not surprisingly, higher-wage workers are little affected. Although the pay of low-wage workers increases, their hours and employment decline, and the combined effect of these changes is a decli...
family’sincome,andsomeofthosefamilieswouldseetheirincomeriseabovethefederalpovertythreshold.Butsomejobsforlow-wageworkerswouldprobablybeeliminated,theincomeofmostworkerswhobecamejoblesswouldfallsubstantially,andtheshareoflow-wageworkerswhowereemployedwouldprobablyfallslightly.WhatOptionsforIncreasingtheMinimumWageDidCBO...
The Effect of Minimum Wages on Labour Market Outcomes: County-Level Estimates from the Restaurant-and-Bar Sector We use US county-level data on employment and earnings in the restaurant-and-bar sector to evaluate the impact of minimum-wage changes in low-wage labour m... John,T.,Addison,....
Report counts low wages' hidden costs ; Public benefits going to workers in U.S. who receive minimum pay A University of California study finds that taxpayer money iseffectively subsidizing employers... P Cohen 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Minimum Wages Act & Organized Sector A University of California...
per 1000 young women between the ages 15 to 19. Comparing this effect to the proposed increase in the federal minimum wage by former President Obama from $7.25 to $10.10, my findings suggest that this policy change would reduce the number of births per 1000 teenagers by between 3.7 and 3.9...
severe critique of the findings from much of the existing U.S. evidence on the employment effects of minimum wages using state-level panel data. They argue that this evidence is biased because of “a spurious negative relationship between the minimum wage and employment for low wage workers…”...
also the lowest wage that workers may sell their labor at. There is also a minimum wage law to effect and protect the benefits and drawbacks of the minimum wage. Establishing the minimum wage brings lots of benefits. It decreases inequality by redistributing earnings from business towards low ...