Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20299 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1064
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using the monthly samples of the Current Population Survey (CPS) outgoing rotation group files, this paper analyzes the most recent increase in the U.S. minimum wage rate. This study focuses on immigrant and native-born workers who are employed in industries with low and high immigrant concentrations, and investigates whether there is any relationship between industry non-compliance and the concentration of immigrant workers. This study finds that resultant wage increases were equal for both immigrants and natives. Also, the analysis shows no existing evidence of non-compliance towards immigrant workers; but rather that female immigrants in immigrant-intensive industries (the worst off in the sample) are the workers with the highest compliance towards them.
Subjects: 
minimum wage
immigrant workers
immigrant-intensive industries
minimum wage compliance
JEL: 
J10
J83
J82
J00
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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