Alaniz, Enrique; Gindling, Thomas; Terrell, Katherine D. - 2011
. We find that changes in the legal minimum wage affect only those workers whose initial wage (before the change in minimum … wages) is close to the minimum. For example, increases in the legal minimum wage lead to significant increases in the wages … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …