[PDF][PDF] Impacts of minimum wages: review of the international evidence

A Dube - Independent Report. UK Government Publication, 2019‏ - digamoo.free.fr
Impacts of minimum wages: Page 1 1 Contents Executive summary 2 Chapter 1 Introduction –
motivation for a minimum wage, and current policy context 6 Chapter 2 Who would be affected by …

Minimum-wage increases and low-wage employment: Evidence from Seattle

E Jardim, MC Long, R Plotnick… - American Economic …, 2022‏ - aeaweb.org
Seattle raised its minimum wage to as much as 11in2015andasmuchas 13 in 2016. We use
Washington State administrative data to conduct two complementary analyses of its impact …

How do firms respond to minimum wage increases? Understanding the relevance of non-employment margins

J Clemens - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021‏ - aeaweb.org
This paper discusses non-employment margins through which firms may respond to
minimum wage increases. Margins of interest include evasion, output prices, noncash …

Dropouts need not apply? The minimum wage and skill upgrading

J Clemens, LB Kahn, J Meer - Journal of Labor Economics, 2021‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
We explore whether minimum wage increases result in substitution from lower-skilled to
slightly higher-skilled labor. Using 2011–16 American Community Survey (ACS) data, we …

[HTML][HTML] When the minimum wage really bites hard: The negative spillover effect on high-skilled workers

T Gregory, U Zierahn - Journal of Public Economics, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Minimum wage levels are rising around the globe. To shed more light on the possible
unintended side effects of higher wage floors, we study the impact of a minimum wage …

City limits: What do local-area minimum wages do?

A Dube, A Lindner - Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2021‏ - aeaweb.org
Cities are increasingly setting their own minimum wages, and this trend has accelerated
sharply in recent years. While in 2010 there were only three cities with their own minimum …

Minimum wage and individual worker productivity: Evidence from a large US retailer

D Coviello, E Deserranno… - Journal of Political …, 2022‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
We study workers who are employed by a large US retailer, work in many store locations,
and are paid based on performance. By means of a border-discontinuity analysis, we …

The heterogeneous effects of large and small minimum wage changes: evidence over the short and medium run using a pre-analysis plan

J Clemens, MR Strain - 2021‏ - nber.org
This paper advances the use of pre-analysis plans in non-experimental research settings. In
a study of recent minimum wage changes, we demonstrate how analyses of medium-and …

Making sense of the minimum wage: A roadmap for navigating recent research

J Clemens - 2019‏ - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
The new conventional wisdom holds that a large increase in the minimum wage would be
desirable policy. Advocates for this policy dismiss the traditional concern that such an …

Does minimum wage increase labor productivity? Evidence from piece rate workers

H Ku - Journal of Labor Economics, 2022‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
I examine worker effort as a potential margin of adjustment to a minimum wage hike using
unique data on piece rate workers who perform a homogenous task and whose individual …