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 longer-run effects could arise if minimum wages increase skill acquisition …

reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of them …

The potential benefits of higher minimum wages come from the higher wages for affected workers, some of whom are in … low-wage, low-skill workers that minimum wages are intended to help. If minimum wages reduce employment of low …-skill workers, then minimum wages are not a "free lunch" with which to help poor and low-income families, but instead pose a …

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 … some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try …

Many U.S. cities have recently increased their minimum wages, especially in California. We report results from carrying … out analyses of the impacts of these city minimum wages, as specified in a pre-analysis plan (PAP) that was registered on … report results updating the data through 2018; our final paper will add another year of evidence on minimum wages. For …

, 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. …