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Youth Minimum Wage Reform and the Labour Market
Hyslop, Dean; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper analyses the effects of a large reform in the minimum wages affecting youth workers in New Zealand since … 2001. Prior to this reform, a youth minimum wage, applying to 16-19 year-olds, was set at 60% of the adult minimum. The … reform had two components. First, it lowered the eligible age for the adult minimum wage from 20 to 18 years, and resulted in …
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Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run
Neumark, David; Nizalova, Olena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald; König, Marion; Schaffner, Sandra - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
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The Effect of Minimum Wages on Immigrants’ Employment and Earnings
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
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Pooling Multiple Case Studies Using Synthetic Controls: An Application to Minimum Wage Policies
Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We propose a simple, distribution-free method for pooling synthetic control case studies using the mean percentile rank. We also test for heterogeneous treatment effects using the distribution of estimated ranks, which has a known form. We propose a cross-validation based procedure for model...
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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market? Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects
Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structural approaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wage elasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods. We begin by providing the...
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The Minimum Wage and Latino Workers
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Latinos comprise a large and growing share of the low-skilled labor force in the U.S. and may be disproportionately affected by minimum wage laws as a result. We compare the effects of minimum wage laws on employment and earnings among Hispanic immigrants and natives compared with non-Hispanic...
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Credible Research Designs for Minimum Wage Studies
Allegretto, Sylvia; Dube, Arindrajit; Reich, Michael; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
We assess alternative research designs for minimum wage studies. States in the U.S. with larger minimum wage increases differ from others in business cycle severity, increased inequality and polarization, political economy, and regional distribution. The resulting time-varying heterogeneity...
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Minimum Wages and Aggregate Job Growth: Causal Effect or Statistical Artifact?
Dube, Arindrajit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
A recent paper by Meer and West argues that minimum wages reduce aggregate employment growth, and that this relationship is masked by looking at employment levels. I also find a negative association between minimum wages and aggregate employment growth using both the Business Dynamics Statistics...
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The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Match Stability
Centeno, Mario; Duarte, Claudia; Novo, Alvaro A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore increases in the nominal minimum wage in a difference-in-differences setting to estimate match survival wage elasticity. The elasticity is negative and larger than one for matches directly affected by minimum wage increases, those with paying below the new minimum wage. The impact of...
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