Minimum wages in the 21st century

A Dube, A Lindner - Handbook of Labor Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This chapter surveys the literature on the impact of minimum wages on low-wage labor
markets. We describe and critically review the empirical methods in the new minimum wage …

Automatic reaction-what happens to workers at firms that automate?

J Bessen, M Goos, A Salomons… - The Review of …, 2023 - scholarship.law.bu.edu
We provide the first estimate of the impacts of automation on individual workers by
combining Dutch micro-data with a direct measure of automation expenditures covering …

Minimum Wages, Efficiency, and Welfare

D Berger, K Herkenhoff, S Mongey - Econometrica, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Many argue that minimum wages can prevent efficiency losses from monopsony power. We
assess this argument in a general equilibrium model of oligopsonistic labor markets with …

What happens to workers at firms that automate?

J Bessen, M Goos, A Salomons… - Review of Economics …, 2025 - direct.mit.edu
We estimate the impact of firm-level automation on individual worker outcomes by
combining Dutch microdata with a direct measure of automation expenditures covering all …

The effects of minimum wages on (almost) everything? A review of recent evidence on health and related behaviors

D Neumark - Labour, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
I review and assess the evidence on minimum wage effects on health outcomes and health‐
related behaviors. The evidence on physical health points in conflicting directions, leaning …

[PDF][PDF] The distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and long run

E Hurst, PJ Kehoe, E Pastorino, T Winberry - 2022 - aeaweb.org
We develop a framework with worker heterogeneity, monopsony power, and putty-clay
technology in order to study the distributional impact of the minimum wage in the short and …

The price and employment response of firms to the introduction of minimum wages

S Link - Journal of Public Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the price and employment responses of firms to the introduction of a
nationwide minimum wage in Germany. Widely throughout the economy, affected firms …

Own-wage elasticity: Quantifying the impact of minimum wages on employment

A Dube, B Zipperer - 2024 - nber.org
The own-wage elasticity (OWE) of employment estimated using minimum wage increases
provides an economically meaningful measure of the policy on jobs. We discuss how to …

Unintended workplace safety consequences of minimum wages

Q Liu, R Lu, ST Sun, M Zhang - Journal of Public Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the unintended impact of minimum wage increases on workplace safety.
Using establishment-level data from the United States and a cohort-based stacked …

[HTML][HTML] Unemployment effects of the German minimum wage in an equilibrium job search model

MJ Blömer, N Guertzgen, L Pohlan, H Stichnoth… - Labour Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and
use the model for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with …