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have reduced employment among low-skilled population groups by just under 1.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the …
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increases reduced employment rates among low-skilled individuals by just over 2.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the … the elasticity of employment with respect to the minimum wage is substantially more negative for large minimum wage …
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employment among low-skilled individuals by roughly 2.5 percentage points. The effects of smaller statutory increases and … relationship between minimum wage increases and employment is quite strongly negative in states that began enacting substantial …
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employment among low-skilled individuals by just over 2 percentage points. The effects of smaller increases are more variable and … with employment among low-skilled individuals, while relatively early and large increases are strongly negatively … correlated with employment. Analysis of future data will be needed to determine whether this apparent difference between short …
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In a study of recent minimum wage changes (Clemens and Strain, forthcoming), we demonstrate how analyses of longer-run impacts of policy interventions can be pre-specified as extensions to very short-run analyses. This paper uses this novel methodology to study the effects of minimum wage...
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While overall production of the manufacturing industry has contracted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, total employment … levels have not undergone a major adjustment.Unlike the service industry, which saw an immediate reduction in employment, the … manufacturing industry has more-or-less maintained the scale of its employment. This property of manufacturing employment has served …
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Just as the standard two-way fixed effects model for estimating the impact of minimum wages on employment has been … policy is also alleged to obtain in such circumstances where the true effect of minimum wages is upon employment growth … statistically insignificant employment effects for an archetypal low-wage sector. We report that a continued focus on employment …
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Recent attempts to incorporate spatial heterogeneity in minimum-wage employment models have been attacked for using … overly simplistic trend controls, and for neglecting the potential impact on employment growth. We investigate whether such … considerations call into question our earlier findings of statistically insignificant employment effects for the restaurant …
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-72, including women. In addition, minimum wage hikes are associated with an increase in informal employment. …
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A central issue in estimating the employment effects of minimum wages is the appropriate comparison group for states … reduce employment of less-skilled workers. In Neumark et al. (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67:608-648, 2014), we present evidence that …
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