Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202895 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Upjohn Institute Working Paper No. 19-298
Publisher: 
W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI
Abstract: 
We study the impact of the minimum wage hike in Seattle from $9.47 to $13 on wagebill, labor demand, and firm revenue using administrative data from the state of Washington. We show that the minimum wage affected businesses both at the intensive and extensive margins. At the intensive margin, businesses increased their labor costs and adjusted to the minimum wage by mildly reducing demand for low-wage jobs, but they largely did not pass the increase in labor costs to prices. At the extensive margin, the minimum wage led to higher rates of business exit and shifted the composition of entering businesses towards less labor-intensive businesses. Finally, we find that the extensive margin and the intensive margin effects were of the same order of magnitude, and were equally important for understanding the impacts of the minimum wage.
Subjects: 
minimum wage
extensive and intensive margin
channels of adjustment
JEL: 
J38
J23
J63
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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