Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/58736 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 6036
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Do apparently large minimum wage increases in an environment of recession produce clearer evidence of disemployment effects than is typically observed in the new minimum wage literature? This paper augments the sparse literature on the most recent increases in the U.S. minimum wage, using three different data sets and the two main estimation strategies for handling geographically-disparate trends. The evidence is generally unsupportive of negative employment effects, still less of a 'recessionary multiplier.' Minimum wage workers seem to be concentrated in sectors of the economy for which the labor demand response to wage mandates is minimal.
Subjects: 
minimum wages
disemployment
earnings
low-wage sectors
geographically-disparate employment trends
recession
JEL: 
J2
J3
J4
J8
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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