Lopresti, John W.; Mumford, Kevin J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2015
This paper addresses the question of how a minimum wage increase affects the wages of low-wage workers. Most studies … assume that there is a simple mechanical increase in the wage for workers earning a wage between the old and the new minimum … wage, with some studies allowing for spillovers to workers with wages just above this range. Rather than assume that the …