2017. "The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Total Number of Jobs: Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator," University of Massachusetts mimeo.Doruk Cengiz, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner, and Ben Zipperer. The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs: Evidence from the ...
We estimate the effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs using 138 prominent state-level minimum wage changes between 1979 and 2016 in the United States using a difference-in-differences approach. We first estimate the effect of the minimum wage increase on employment changes by wage bins throug...
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39CBOTheEffectsofaMinimum-WageIncreaseonEmploymentandFamilyIncomeSummaryIncreasingtheminimumwagewouldhavetwoprincipaleffectsonlow-wageworkers.Mostofthemwouldreceivehigherpaythatwouldincreasetheirfamily’sincome,andsomeofthosefamilieswouldseetheirincomeriseabovethefederalpovertythreshold.Butsomejobsforlow-wageworkerswould...
There has been a heated debate among economic scholars on issues concerning the effect of minimum wage on employment. In efforts to prove the point of their arguments, many scholars have conducted researches on the impact of increasing the minimum wage rates on the levels of employment. In this...
of changes in legal minimum wages on a host of labor market outcomes including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty...
The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. Two recent studies analyzed research conducted since the early 1990s and concluded that the minimum wage has zero or no statistically significant effect on the employment prospects of low-wage workers...
Furthermore, there is evidence of a spillover effect towards income groups closer to the treatment group. Keywords: minimum wage; MW; inequality; poverty; systematic review; PRISMA; difference-in-differences; Spain1. Introduction The minimum wage (MW) has been a subject of interest to ...
Opponents of raising the minimum wage argue that it will cause unemployment, while proponents say it could boost consumer spending, resulting in more jobs. Many cities, counties, states, and employers have established minimum wages different from the federal minimum rate.2 ...
This debate is also prevalent in the political sphere where policymakers at all levels of government disagree about the impacts of the minimum wage on workers and businesses (Peters, 2009). The last federal increase took effect in July 2009 and changed the minimum wage from $6.55 to $7.25. ...