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We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796045
, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant … - but within cross-border commuting zones - we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013198637
, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013201636
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607500
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276027
We revisit the minimum wage-employment debate, which is as old as the Department of Labor. In particular, we assess new … heterogeneity and conclude that minimum wages in the United States have not reduced employment. We explore the ability of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291368
I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the … answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984559
We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs – jobs in which employers may find it … share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in … ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816569
, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …−but within cross-border commuting zones−we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013266711
, generating spurious evidence that higher minimum wages reduce employment. Using minimum wage variation within contiguous county … pairs that share a state border, they find no relationship between minimum wages and employment in the U.S. restaurant …—but within cross-border commuting zones—we find a robust negative relationship between minimum wages and employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351821