Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/106926 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 330
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
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-and-bar sector. We find that a focus on employment levels is still appropriate, and nonlinear trend controls do not dislodge our limited support for the existence of minimum-wage effects.
Subjects: 
minimum wages
employment
employment change
spatial controls
JEL: 
J23
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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