When minimum wages increase, employers may respond to the regulatory burdens by substituting away from disadvantaged workers. We test this hypothesis using a correspondence study with 35,000 applications around ex-ante uncertain minimum wage increases in three U.S. states. Before the increases,...

In this paper, I conducted a correspondence study to determine whether ATS used in the hiring process racially discriminate. For the study I sent out 248 applications to Fortune 500 companies utilizing ATS. I do not find evidence of racial discrimination in this preliminary study. Potentially,...