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Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2018

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2020

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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The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes: Evidence over the Short and Medium Run Using a Pre-analysis Plan

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2021

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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Minimum Wage Analysis Using a Pre-Committed Research Design: Evidence through 2016

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2018

have reduced employment among low-skilled population groups by just under 1.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the …

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes on Hours Worked: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan

Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R. - 2025

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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The employment effects of collective bargaining

Fanfani, Bernardo - 2020

This paper presents a model where wage differences between men and women arise from taste-based discrimination and monopsonistic mechanisms. We show how preferences against women affect heterogeneity in firms' pay policies in the context of an imperfect labour market, deriving a test for the...

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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004

This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...

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On the Robustness of Minimum Wage Effects: Geographically-Disparate Trends and Job Growth Equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad - 2014

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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On the robustness of minimum wage effects: Geographically-disparate trends and job growth equations

Addison, John T.; Blackburn, McKinley L.; Cotti, Chad D. - 2014

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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Minimum Wages and Firm-Level Employment in a Developing Country

Sjöholm, Fredrik - 2020

The effect of minimum wages on employment is a matter of debate, and the existing empirical literature contains mixed … these changes in minimum wages affect employment, considering the effect both on employment within plants and on exit of … plants. Our results show no evidence of an effect of minimum wages on employment in Indonesian plants. One explanation found …

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