Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the impact of minimum wages on earnings and employment in selected branches of the retail …-trade sector, 1990-2005, using county-level data on employment and a panel regression framework that allows for county … the evidence suggests modest (but robust) positive employment effects. One explanation we consider for these ‘perverse …