Mindestlohn
Seit Inkrafttreten des Mindestlohngesetzes am 1. Januar 2015 gilt ein allgemeingültiger flächendeckender Mindestlohn in Deutschland. Lohnuntergrenzen gibt es in beinahe allen europäischen Staaten und den USA. Die Mindestlohn-Gesetze haben das Ziel, Lohn-Dumping, also die nicht verhältnismäßige Bezahlung von Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern, zu verhindern.
Diese Infoplattform dokumentiert die Diskussion rund um die Einführung des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns in Deutschland und die Ergebnisse empirischer Forschung der letzten Jahre zu flächendeckenden und branchenspezifischen Mindestlöhnen.
- IAB
- Grundsätzliches zum flächendeckenden Mindestlohn
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf
- Auswirkungen des flächendeckenden Mindestlohns auf Personengruppen
- Ausnahmen vom flächendeckenden Mindestlohn für
- Ausweichreaktionen auf Mindestlöhne in Deutschland
- Bundesländer
- Branchenspezifische Mindestlöhne und deren Auswirkungen auf
- Mindestlohn in anderen Ländern
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The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs: evidence from the United States using a bunching estimator (2018)
Cengiz, Doruk; Dube, Arindrajit; Lindner, Attila; Zipperer, Ben;Zitatform
Cengiz, Doruk, Arindrajit Dube, Attila Lindner & Ben Zipperer (2018): The effect of minimum wages on low-wage jobs. Evidence from the United States using a bunching estimator. (CEP discussion paper 1531), London, 104 S.
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"We propose a novel method that infers the employment effect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. Using state-level variation in U.S. minimum wages, we implement our method by providing new estimates on the effect of the minimum wage on the frequency distribution of hourly wages. First, we present a case study of a large, indexed minimum wage increase using administrative data on hourly wages from Washington State. Then we implement an event study analysis pooling 138 minimum wage increases between 1979 and 2016. In both cases, we find that the overall number of low-wage jobs remained essentially unchanged. At the same time, the direct effect of the minimum wage on average earnings was amplified by modest wage spillovers at the bottom of the wage distribution. Our estimates by detailed demographic groups show that the lack of job loss is not explained by labor-labor substitution at the bottom of the wage distribution. We also find no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages. However, we do find some evidence of reduced employment in tradable sectors. In contrast to our bunching-based estimates, we show that conventional studies can produce misleading inference due to spurious changes in employment higher up in the wage distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage, fringe benefits, and worker welfare (2018)
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Clemens, Jeffrey, Lisa B. Kahn & Jonathan Meer (2018): The minimum wage, fringe benefits, and worker welfare. (NBER working paper 24635), Cambrige, Mass., 66 S. DOI:10.3386/w24635
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"This paper explores the relationship between the minimum wage, the structure of employee compensation, and worker welfare. We advance a conceptual framework that describes the conditions under which a minimum wage increase will alter the provision of fringe benefits, alter employment outcomes, and either increase or decrease worker welfare. Using American Community Survey data from 2011-2016, we find robust evidence that state-level minimum wage changes decreased the likelihood that individuals report having employer-sponsored health insurance. Effects are largest among workers in very low-paying occupations, for whom coverage declines offset 9 percent of the wage gains associated with minimum wage hikes. We find evidence that both insurance coverage and wage effects exhibit spillovers into occupations moderately higher up the wage distribution. For these groups, reductions in coverage offset a more substantial share of the wage gains we estimate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage analysis using a pre-committed research design: evidence through 2016 (2018)
Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R.;Zitatform
Clemens, Jeffrey & Michael R. Strain (2018): Minimum wage analysis using a pre-committed research design. Evidence through 2016. (IZA discussion paper 11427), Bonn, 41 S.
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"This paper presents results from the first year of a multi-year, pre-committed research design for analyzing recent state-level minimum wage changes. Through 2015 and 2016, we estimate that relatively large statutory minimum wage increases have reduced employment among low-skilled population groups by just under 1.5 percentage points. Our estimates of the effects of smaller minimum wage increases are more variable and include both moderately large positive values and modest negative values. Our estimates of the effects of increases linked to inflation-indexing provisions are also quite variable, taking a small positive value on average across specifications. Results including 2016 diverge nontrivially when we compare estimates using the American Community Survey (ACS) to estimates using the Current Population Survey (CPS), with estimates tending to be more negative in the ACS. Analysis of future data will be needed to determine whether this difference across surveys is most appropriately attributed to sampling variations or to some other cause." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of minimum wages on absence from work due to illness (2018)
Du, Juan; Leigh, J. Paul;Zitatform
Du, Juan & J. Paul Leigh (2018): Effects of minimum wages on absence from work due to illness. In: The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy, Jg. 18, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1515/bejeap-2017-0097
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"Using longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for 1997 - 2013 and difference-in-differences (DD) and difference-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) techniques, we estimate the effects of minimum wages on absence from work due to own and others' (such as children's) illnesses. We use person fixed effects within both linear and two-part models, the latter to explore changes at extensive and intensive margins. A lower educated group (likely affected by minimum wages) is compared with higher educated groups (likely unaffected). Within the lower educated group, we find higher minimum wages are associated with lower rates of absence due to own and others' illness combined and due to own illness alone, but not associated with absence due to others' illness. A $1 increase in the real minimum wage results in 19 % (in DD model) and 32 % (DDD) decreases in the absence rate due to own illness evaluated at the mean. These findings are strongest for persons who are not employed year-round and among the lowest wage earners. In additional analysis, we show that these effects are likely not due to changes in labor supply or job-related attributes. Instead, we find a possible mechanism: higher minimum wages improve self-reported health for lower educated workers." (Author's abstract, 䗏 De Gruyter) ((en))
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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration (2018)
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Edo, Anthony & Hillel Rapoport (2018): Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration. (IZA discussion paper 11778), Bonn, 66 S.
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"This paper exploits the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across U.S. States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate the labor market effects of immigration. We find that the impact of immigration on the wages and employment of native workers within a given state-skill cell is more negative in States with low minimum wages and for workers with low education and experience. That is, the minimum wage tends to protect native workers from competition induced by low-skill immigration. The results are robust to instrumenting immigration and state effective minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences approach comparing States where effective minimum wages are fully determined by the federal minimum wage to States where this is never the case." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Where does the minimum wage bite hardest in California? (2018)
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Even, William E. & David A. Macpherson (2018): Where does the minimum wage bite hardest in California? (IZA discussion paper 12000), Bonn, 37 S.
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"This study uses employment data on California county-industry pairs (CIPs) between 1990 and 2016 to test whether minimum wage increases caused employment growth to slow most in the CIPS with a large share of low wage workers. Evidence supports the hypothesis, and we use the estimates to simulate the effect of a 10 percent increase in the minimum wage. The simulations suggest that a 10 percent increase could cause a 3.4 percent employment loss in the average CIP in California. The job loss is projected to be concentrated in two industries: accommodation and food services, and retail. While the most populated counties of California are expected to incur the largest employment loss in terms of the number of workers, the smaller counties generally experience a larger percentage point loss in employment due to the lower wages and the greater number of workers that would be affected by the minimum wage hike. Moreover, there is substantial variation across counties in terms of the percentage of jobs lost within a given industry." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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How will higher minimum wages affect family life and children's well-being? (2018)
Hill, Heather D.; Romich, Jennifer;Zitatform
Hill, Heather D. & Jennifer Romich (2018): How will higher minimum wages affect family life and children's well-being? In: Child development perspectives, Jg. 12, H. 2, S. 109-114. DOI:10.1111/cdep.12270
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"In recent years, new national and regional minimum wage laws have been passed in the United States and other countries. The laws assume that benefits flow not only to workers but also to their children. Adolescent workers will most likely be affected directly given their concentration in low-paying jobs, but younger children may be affected indirectly by changes in parents' work conditions, family income, and the quality of nonparental child care. Research on minimum wages suggests modest and mixed economic effects: Decreases in employment can offset, partly or fully, wage increases, and modest reductions in poverty rates may fade over time. Few studies have examined the effects of minimum wage increases on the well-being of families, adults, and children. In this article, we use theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence concerning the effects on children of parental work and family income to suggest hypotheses about the effects of minimum wage increases on family life and children's well-being." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage increases and individual employment trajectories (2018)
Jardim, Ekaterina; Wething, Hilary; Inwegen, Emma van; Vigdor, Jacob; Long, Mark C. ; Plotnick, Robert;Zitatform
Jardim, Ekaterina, Mark C. Long, Robert Plotnick, Emma van Inwegen, Jacob Vigdor & Hilary Wething (2018): Minimum wage increases and individual employment trajectories. (NBER working paper 25182), Cambrige, Mass., 47 S. DOI:10.3386/w25182
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"Using administrative employment data from the state of Washington, we use short-duration longitudinal panels to study the impact of Seattle's minimum wage ordinance on individuals employed in low-wage jobs immediately before a wage increase. We draw counterfactual observations using nearest-neighbor matching and derive effect estimates by comparing the 'treated' cohort to a placebo cohort drawn from earlier data. We attribute significant hourly wage increases and hours reductions to the policy. On net, the minimum wage increase from $9.47 to as much as $13 per hour raised earnings by an average of $8-$12 per week. The entirety of these gains accrued to workers with above-median experience at baseline; less-experienced workers saw no significant change to weekly pay. Approximately one-quarter of the earnings gains can be attributed to experienced workers making up for lost hours in Seattle with work outside the city limits. We associate the minimum wage ordinance with an 8% reduction in job turnover rates as well as a significant reduction in the rate of new entries into the workforce." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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People versus machines: the impact of minimum wages on automatable jobs (2018)
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Lordan, Grace & David Neumark (2018): People versus machines: the impact of minimum wages on automatable jobs. In: Labour economics, Jg. 52, H. June, S. 40-53. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.03.006
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"We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people - focusing on low-skilled workers for whom such substitution may be spurred by minimum wage increases. Based on CPS data from 1980 to 2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in automatable jobs become nonemployed or employed in worse jobs. The average effects mask significant heterogeneity by industry and demographic group, including substantive adverse effects for older, low-skilled workers in manufacturing. We also find some evidence that the same changes improve job opportunities for higher-skilled workers. The findings imply that groups often ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation following a minimum wage increase." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))
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The truth about the minimum wage - neither job killer nor cure-all (2018)
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Manning, Alan (2018): The truth about the minimum wage - neither job killer nor cure-all. In: Foreign affairs, Jg. 97, H. 1, S. 126-134.
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"It has been more than eight years since mang of the United States' cashiers, dishwashers, janitors, lifeguards, baggage handlers, baristas, manicurists, retail employees, housekeepers, construc- tion laborers, home health aides, security guards, and other minimumwage workers last got a raise. The federal minimum wage now stands at just $7.25. In real terms, these workers' earnings have declined by nearly 13 percent since the last pike, in 2009 - and have fallen by over one-third since 1968, when the real federal minimum wage was at its peak of $11.38 in today's money (although only $1.60 then). Although most Americans think the minimum wage should go up - one 2017 poll found that 75 percent supported raising it to $9.00 per hour - today's Republican-controlled Congress is unlikely to act. But the lack of Progress on Capitol HUI should not give one the impression that little is happening with regard to the minimum wage. In fact, never has there been so rauch action - it's just that it is happening at the state and, increasingly, City levels. The 'Fight for 15' has become a rallying call on the left and has resulted in some notüble successes. Twenty-nine U.S. states plus the. District of Columbia now have minimum wages that exceed the federal minimum, as do about 40 municipalities. Proponents of the minimum wage Claim that a high minimum wage is the best way to ensure an acceptable standard of living for all Americans, whereas opponents counter that lt is likely to destroy Jobs. In the debate between these two camps, feelings often run high. But behind the emotion, economics, both theoretical and empirical, can help one make sense of the issues at stake. The bottom ine is that there is not muck evidente that the minimum wage is currently a job killer in the United States, and so there is room for it to go up. Raising the minimum wage, however, is not a particularly effective tool to combat poverty and share the benefits of growth." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Longer-run effects of anti-poverty policies on disadvantaged neighborhoods (2018)
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Neumark, David, Brian J. Asquith & Brittany Bass (2018): Longer-run effects of anti-poverty policies on disadvantaged neighborhoods. (NBER working paper 25231), Cambrige, Mass., 50 S. DOI:10.3386/w25231
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"We estimate the longer-run effects of minimum wages, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and welfare on key economic indicators of economic self-sufficiency in disadvantaged neighborhoods. Our strongest findings are twofold. First, the longer-run effects of the EITC are to increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance, as long as we rely on national as well as state variation in EITC policy. Second, tighter welfare time limits also reduce poverty and public assistance in the longer run; while the effect on public assistance result may be mechanically related to loss of benefits, the effect on poverty is more likely behavioral. It is harder to draw firm conclusions about minimum wages and welfare benefits. With some specifications and samples, the evidence suggests that higher minimum wages lead to longer-run declines in poverty and the share of families on public assistance, whereas higher welfare benefits have adverse longer-run effects. However, the evidence on minimum wages and welfare benefits is not robust - and the estimated effects of minimum wages are sometimes in the opposite direction, including when we restrict the analysis to more recent data that is likely of more interest to policymakers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The econometrics and economics of the employment effects of minimum wages: getting from known unknowns to known knowns (2018)
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Neumark, David (2018): The econometrics and economics of the employment effects of minimum wages. Getting from known unknowns to known knowns. (NBER working paper 25043), Cambrige, Mass., 42 S. DOI:10.3386/w25043
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"I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, that I think hold the most promise for understanding the conflicting evidence and arriving at a more definitive answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of uncertainty about the likely effects of the large minimum wage increases becoming more prevalent in the United States. I discuss some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, although one might argue that we first need to do more to settle the question of the effects of past, smaller increases on which we have more evidence (hence my first goal). But I also try to emphasize what research can be done now and in the near future to provide useful evidence to policymakers on the results of the coming high minimum wage experiment, whether in the United States or in other countries." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Employment effects of minimum wages: when minimum wages are introduced or raised, are there fewer jobs? (2018)
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Neumark, David (2018): Employment effects of minimum wages. When minimum wages are introduced or raised, are there fewer jobs? (IZA world of labor 6), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.6.v2
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"Das Hauptziel der Mindestlohnpolitik, Existenzsicherung durch Arbeit zu garantieren, wird durch unerwünschte Nebeneffekte untergraben. Umfangreiche empirische Erkenntnisse sprechen dafür, dass höhere Mindestlöhne zu Ausweichreaktionen in Form von Stellenabbau führen. Auch die gewünschten Verteilungseffekte bleiben in der Regel aus, obwohl einige Arbeitsmarktgruppen vom Mindestlohn durchaus profitieren. Zur gezielten Unterstützung einkommensschwacher Familien sind andere Instrumente besser geeignet, beispielsweise eine negative Einkommenssteuer." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Education and the minimum wage in the United States (2018)
Pargianas, Christos;Zitatform
Pargianas, Christos (2018): Education and the minimum wage in the United States. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 25, H. 7, S. 447-450. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2017.1332738
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"This article shows that, across the US states, the level of education has a causal effect on the minimum wage. More specifically, it argues that a one-percentage point increase in the proportion of college graduates implies a 0.4 - 0.5% decrease in the real value of the minimum wage. This is the first article that uses System GMM in order to examine the effect of education on the minimum wage. Given the structure of the available data, this is the most appropriate econometric technique. System GMM not only controls for endogeneity and for fixed effects but also maximizes the precision of the estimates by using all the available variation in the data." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Coupling a federal minimum wage hike with public investments to make work pay and reduce poverty (2018)
Romich, Jennifer; Hill, Heather D.;Zitatform
Romich, Jennifer & Heather D. Hill (2018): Coupling a federal minimum wage hike with public investments to make work pay and reduce poverty. In: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Jg. 4, H. 3, S. 22-43. DOI:10.7758/rsf.2018.4.3.02
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"For more than a century, advocates have promoted minimum wage laws to protect workers and their families from poverty. Opponents counter that the policy has, at best, small poverty-reducing effects. We summarize the evidence and describe three factors that might dampen the policy's effects on poverty: imperfect targeting, heterogeneous labor market effects, and interactions with income support programs. To boost the poverty-reducing effects of the minimum wage, we propose increasing the federal minimum wage to $12 per hour and temporarily expanding an existing employer tax credit. This is a cost-saving proposal because it relies on regulation and creates no new administrative functions. We recommend using those savings to 'make work pay' and improve upward mobility for low-income workers through lower marginal tax rates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers (2017)
Averett, Susan L.; Wang, Yang; Smith, Julie K.;Zitatform
Averett, Susan L., Julie K. Smith & Yang Wang (2017): The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 24, H. 16, S. 1127-1130. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2016.1259737
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"This article examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Estimating the employment effects of recent minimum wage changes: early evidence, an interpretative framework, and a pre-commitment to future analysis (2017)
Clemens, Jeffrey; Strain, Michael R.;Zitatform
Clemens, Jeffrey & Michael R. Strain (2017): Estimating the employment effects of recent minimum wage changes. Early evidence, an interpretative framework, and a pre-commitment to future analysis. (NBER working paper 23084), Cambrige, Mass., 48 S. DOI:10.3386/w23084
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"This paper presents early evidence on the employment effects of state minimum wage increases enacted between January 2013 and January 2015, and offers an interpretative framework to understand why it is of interest to study recent changes in isolation. Given the ongoing transitions of many states' minimum wage rates, we also set the stage for a pre-committed analysis of the minimum wage changes scheduled for coming years. Through 2015, we estimate that employment among young adults and young individuals with less than a completed high school education expanded modestly less quickly in states that enacted one-time or multi-phase statutory minimum wage increases than in states that enacted no minimum wage increases. Across the specifications we implement and the samples we analyze, many of our estimates are statistically indistinguishable from zero. Data on the longer-run effects of this period's minimum wage changes will be essential for more fully assessing these changes' effects and for drawing strong conclusions regarding how minimum wage increases affect employment in this decade's institutional and economic environment. As data become available for the full 2016 through 2019 calendar years, we will execute and report the results of analyses that follow the road map this paper develops." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes (2017)
Dube, Arindrajit;Zitatform
Dube, Arindrajit (2017): Minimum wages and the distribution of family incomes. (IZA discussion paper 10572), Bonn, 69 S.
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"Using the March Current Population Survey data from 1984 to 2013, I provide a comprehensive evaluation of how minimum wage policies influence the distribution of family incomes. I find robust evidence that higher minimum wages shift down the cumulative distribution of family incomes at the bottom, reducing the share of non-elderly individuals with incomes below 50, 75, 100, and 125 percent of the federal poverty threshold. The long run (3 or more years) minimum wage elasticity of the non-elderly poverty rate with respect to the minimum wage ranges between -0.22 and -0.55 across alternative specifications that subsume most of the approaches used in the literature to construct valid counterfactuals. Inverting the policy's effect on the cumulative distribution, I estimate minimum wage elasticities for unconditional quantiles of family incomes. The long run minimum wage elasticities for the 10th and 15th unconditional quantiles of equivalized family incomes range between 0.15 and 0.49 depending on specification. A reduction in public assistance partly offsets these income gains, which are on average 72% as large when using an expanded income definition including tax credits and non-cash transfers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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People versus machines: the impact of minimum wages on automatable jobs (2017)
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Lordan, Grace & David Neumark (2017): People versus machines: the impact of minimum wages on automatable jobs. (NBER working paper 23667), Cambrige, Mass., 39 S. DOI:10.3386/w23667
Abstract
"We study the effect of minimum wage increases on employment in automatable jobs - jobs in which employers may find it easier to substitute machines for people - focusing on low-skilled workers from whom such substitution may be spurred by minimum wage increases. Based on CPS data from 1980-2015, we find that increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of automatable employment held by low-skilled workers, and increases the likelihood that low-skilled workers in automatable jobs become unemployed. The average effects mask significant heterogeneity by industry and demographic group, including substantive adverse effects for older, low-skilled workers in manufacturing. The findings imply that groups often ignored in the minimum wage literature are in fact quite vulnerable to employment changes and job loss because of automation following a minimum wage increase." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Cross-state differences in the minimum wage and out-of-state commuting by low-wage workers (2017)
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McKinnish, Terra (2017): Cross-state differences in the minimum wage and out-of-state commuting by low-wage workers. In: Regional science and urban economics, Jg. 64, H. May, S. 137-147. DOI:10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2017.02.006
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"The 2009 federal minimum wage increase, which compressed cross-state differences in the minimum wage, is used to investigate the claim that low-wage workers are attracted to commute out of state to neighboring states that have higher minimum wages. The analysis focuses on Public Use Microdata Areas (PUMAs) that experience commuting flows with one or more neighboring state. A difference-in-differences-in-differences model compares PUMAs that experienced a sizeable increase or decrease in their cross-border minimum wage differential to those that experience smaller change in the cross-border differential. Out-of-state commuting of low wage workers (less than 10 dollars an hour) is then compared to that of moderate wage workers (10 - 13 dollars an hour). The results suggest that an increase in own state's minimum wage, relative to neighbor's, increases the frequency with which low-wage workers commute out of the state. The analysis is replicated on the subset of PUMAs that experience commuting flows with more than one neighboring state, so that the estimates are identified entirely within PUMA. As a whole, the results suggest that low-wage workers tend to commute away from minimum wage increases rather than towards them." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The employment effects of minimum wages: some questions we need to answer (2017)
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Neumark, David (2017): The employment effects of minimum wages. Some questions we need to answer. (NBER working paper 23584), Cambrige, Mass., 30 S. DOI:10.3386/w23584
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"The literature on the employment effects of minimum wages is about a century old, and includes hundreds of studies. Yet the debate among researchers about the employment effects of minimum wages remains intense and unsettled. This essay discussed the key questions that have arisen in the past research that, if we can answer them, may prove most useful in making sense of the conflicting evidence. I also focus on additional questions we should consider to better inform the policy debate, in particular in the context of the very high minimum wages coming on line in the United States, about which past research is quite uninformative." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The contribution of the minimum wage to US wage inequality over three decades: a reassessment (2016)
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Autor, David H., Alan Manning & Christopher L. Smith (2016): The contribution of the minimum wage to US wage inequality over three decades. A reassessment. In: American Economic Journal. Applied Economics, Jg. 8, H. 1, S. 58-99. DOI:10.1257/app.20140073
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"We reassess the effect of minimum wages on US earnings inequality using additional decades of data and an IV strategy that addresses potential biases in prior work. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution, though by substantially less than previous estimates, suggesting that rising lower tail inequality after 1980 primarily reflects underlying wage structure changes rather than an unmasking of latent inequality. These wage effects extend to percentiles where the minimum is nominally nonbinding, implying spillovers. We are unable to reject that these spillovers are due to reporting artifacts, however." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers (2016)
Averett, Susan L.; Wang, Yang; Smith, Julie K.;Zitatform
Averett, Susan L., Julie K. Smith & Yang Wang (2016): The effects of minimum wages on the health of working teenagers. (IZA discussion paper 10185), Bonn, 15 S.
Abstract
"This paper examines the effect of minimum wage increases on the self-reported health of teenage workers. We use a difference-in-differences estimation strategy and data from the Current Population Survey, and disaggregate the sample by race/ethnicity and gender to uncover the differential effects of changes in the minimum wage on health. We find that white women are more likely to report better health with a minimum wage increase while Hispanic men report worse health." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The minimum wage and inequality: the effects of education and technology (2016)
Barany, Zsofia L.;Zitatform
Barany, Zsofia L. (2016): The minimum wage and inequality. The effects of education and technology. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 34, H. 1/Pt. 1, S. 237-274.
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"In the past 30 years, wage inequality has increased steeply while real minimum wages have fallen. This paper demonstrates that a general equilibrium model with endogenous skill choice is required to correctly evaluate the implications of minimum wage changes. The minimum wage not only truncates the wage distribution but also affects skill prices and therefore changes the incentives that people face when making educational decisions. The calibrated model suggests -- in line with recent empirical literature - that even though minimum wages affect the bottom end of the wage distribution more, their impact on the top end is significant as well." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Does the minimum wage bite into fast-food prices? (2016)
Basker, Emek; Khan, Muhammad Taimur;Zitatform
Basker, Emek & Muhammad Taimur Khan (2016): Does the minimum wage bite into fast-food prices? In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 37, H. 2, S. 129-148. DOI:10.1007/s12122-016-9224-5
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"We study the effect of increases in effective minimum wages on the prices of several fast-food items using quarterly city-level data from 1993 - 2014, a period during much of which the federal minimum wage declined in real value while state-level legislation flourished. For one product, a burger, we find a robust price elasticity of 9 % with respect to the minimum wage. This estimate indicates substantial cost pass-through when contextualized by the effect of minimum-wage increases on restaurant wage bills. Our estimate for pizza is suggestive of a similarly large pass-through rate but is less precisely estimated, and our estimate for fried chicken is near zero, but estimated even less precisely. Taken as a whole, our estimates point toward sizable cost pass-through of minimum wage increases to consumer prices. These results contribute to a mixed literature on the consumer burden of minimum wage increases." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Mindestlohn in Deutschland, Großbritannien und in den USA (2016)
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Bossler, Mario (2016): Mindestlohn in Deutschland, Großbritannien und in den USA. In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Jg. 96, H. 6, S. 422-425., 2016-04-29. DOI:10.1007/s10273-016-1992-2
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"Die Diskussion über die Auswirkungen des allgemeinen gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland ist in vollem Gange. Erste Evaluationsergebnisse zeigen, dass der Mindestlohn in Deutschland nur einen moderaten Beschäftigungsverlust nach sich zog, wobei langfristige Auswirkungen zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt schwierig zu schätzen sind. Während in Deutschland gefordert wird, den Mindestlohn mit Augenmaß und unter Berücksichtigung bestehender Evidenz zu erhöhen, werden Mindestlöhne in Großbritannien und den USA teilweise über die bisherigen empirischen Erfahrungen hinaus angehoben." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)
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Minimum wage shocks, employment flows, and labor market frictions (2016)
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Dube, Arindrajit, T. William Lester & Michael Reich (2016): Minimum wage shocks, employment flows, and labor market frictions. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 34, H. 3, S. 663-704. DOI:10.1086/685449
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"We provide the first estimates of the effects of minimum wages on employment flows in the US labor market, identifying the impact by using policy discontinuities at state borders. We find that minimum wages have a sizable negative effect on employment flows but not on stocks. Separations and accessions fall among affected workers, especially those with low tenure. We do not find changes in the duration of nonemployment for separations or hires. This evidence is consistent with search models with endogenous separations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Getting handcuffs on an octopus: minimum wages, employment, and turnover (2016)
Gittings, R. Kaj; Schmutte, Ian M.;Zitatform
Gittings, R. Kaj & Ian M. Schmutte (2016): Getting handcuffs on an octopus. Minimum wages, employment, and turnover. In: ILR review, Jg. 69, H. 5, S. 1133-1170. DOI:10.1177/0019793915623519
Abstract
"Theoretical work on minimum wage policy emphasizes labor market dynamics, but the resulting implications for worker mobility remain largely untested. The authors show that in the teenage labor market, higher minimum wage standards reduce worker flows and increase job stability. Furthermore, they find that the employment effects of a relatively higher minimum wage vary considerably across markets with different levels of turnover and labor market tightness. Results help to explain the small effects of minimum wage standards on employment commonly found in the aggregate data and are consistent with labor market models that involve search frictions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Are the effects of minimum wage increases always small?: a reanalysis of Sabia, Burkhauser, and Hansen (2016)
Hoffman, Saul D.;Zitatform
Hoffman, Saul D. (2016): Are the effects of minimum wage increases always small? A reanalysis of Sabia, Burkhauser, and Hansen. In: ILR review, Jg. 69, H. 2, S. 295-311. DOI:10.1177/0019793915610558
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"In a 2012 article, Sabia, Burkhauser, and Hansen reported very large negative effects of the 2004 to 2006 increase in the New York State minimum wage on the employment of young, less-educated workers. Hoffman reexamines their estimates using data from the full Current Population Survey (CPS), rather than the smaller CPS-MORG files they used, and finds no evidence of a negative employment impact. The full CPS, which is the source of U.S. official labor market statistics, is certainly the more appropriate and reliable data source. Furthermore, when Hoffman repeats the analysis using three states and the District of Columbia, which also had a substantial increase in the state minimum wage in the same time period, he finds evidence of a small positive employment effect. Together, the two findings are consistent with other, more recent research that reports very weak or zero employment effects of the minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do minimum wage increases influence worker health? (2016)
Horn, Brady P.; Maclean, Joanna Catherine; Strain, Michael R.;Zitatform
Horn, Brady P., Joanna Catherine Maclean & Michael R. Strain (2016): Do minimum wage increases influence worker health? (NBER working paper 22578), Cambrige, Mass., 34 S. DOI:10.3386/w22578
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"This study investigates whether minimum wage increases in the United States affect an important non-market outcome: worker health. To study this question, we use data on lesser-skilled workers from the 1993-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Surveys coupled with differences-in-differences and triple-difference models. We find little evidence that minimum wage increases lead to improvements in overall worker health. In fact, we find some evidence that minimum wage increases may decrease some aspects of health, especially among unemployed male workers. We also find evidence that increases reduce mental strain among employed workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of minimum wages on youth employment and income: minimum wages reduce entry-level jobs, training, and lifetime income (2016)
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie;Zitatform
Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie (2016): The effects of minimum wages on youth employment and income. Minimum wages reduce entry-level jobs, training, and lifetime income. (IZA world of labor 243), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.243
Abstract
"Empirische Studien belegen, dass Mindestlöhne die Beschäftigungschancen für junge Geringqualifizierte reduzieren. Zwar profitieren diejenigen, die einen Job finden, von höheren Einstiegslöhnen. Für arbeitslose Jugendliche wird der Arbeitsmarkteinstieg dagegen schwerer, was zu langfristigen Einkommenseinbußen führt. Das Lebenseinkommen sinkt zusätzlich aufgrund mangelnder betrieblicher Qualifizierungsangebote. Auszubildende sollten daher vom Mindestlohn ausgenommen sein. Durch staatliche Unterstützung in Form von Geld- oder Sachleistungen ließe sich ungelernten Jugendlichen effektiver helfen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Spillover bias in cross-border minimum wage studies : evidence from a gravity model (2016)
Kuehn, Daniel;Zitatform
Kuehn, Daniel (2016): Spillover bias in cross-border minimum wage studies : evidence from a gravity model. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 37, H. 4, S. 441-459. DOI:10.1007/s12122-016-9234-3
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"This paper explores the problem of spillover bias in cross-border studies of the minimum wage using a commuter gravity model on county-level data from 2009 to 2013. Commuter flows conform to the expectations of the gravity equation, but flows across county borders are sensitive to changes in the minimum wage rate, which implies that minimum wage employment effect estimates using contiguous counties are likely to suffer from spillover bias. One way to address this bias is to include a control ring between treatment and comparison counties, although this solution may introduce biases of its own. A gravity model that includes a control ring affirms that this alternative comparison group can address this spillover bias problem." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))
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Impact of the minimum wage on youth labor markets (2016)
Liu, Shanshan; Regmi, Krishna; Hyclak, Thomas J.;Zitatform
Liu, Shanshan, Thomas J. Hyclak & Krishna Regmi (2016): Impact of the minimum wage on youth labor markets. In: Labour, Jg. 30, H. 1, S. 18-37. DOI:10.1111/labr.12071
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"We study the effect of the minimum wage on labor market outcomes for young workers using US county-level panel data from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2009. We go beyond the usual estimates of earnings and employment effects to consider how differences across states in the minimum wage affect worker turnover via separations and accessions and job turnover through new job creation and job losses. We find that a higher minimum wage level is associated with higher earnings, lower employment and reduced worker turnover for those in the 14 - 18 age group. For workers aged 19 - 21 and 22 - 24, we find less consistent evidence of minimum wage effects on earnings and employment. But, even for these age groups, a higher minimum wage is found to reduce accessions, separations and the turnover rate." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))
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Who benefits from a minimum wage increase? (2016)
Lopresti, John W.; Mumford, Kevin J.;Zitatform
Lopresti, John W. & Kevin J. Mumford (2016): Who benefits from a minimum wage increase? In: ILR review, Jg. 69, H. 5, S. 1171-1190. DOI:10.1177/0019793916653595
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"The authors address the question of how a minimum wage increase affects the wages of low-wage workers relative to the wage the worker would have if there had been no minimum wage increase. The authors' method allows for the effect to depend not only on the initial wage of the worker but also nonlinearly on the size of the minimum wage increase. Results indicate that low-wage workers who experience a small increase in the minimum wage tend to have lower wage growth than if there had been no minimum wage increase. A large increase to the minimum wage not only increases the wages of those workers who previously earned less than the new minimum wage but also spills over to workers with moderately higher wages. Finally, the authors find little evidence of heterogeneity in the effect by age, gender, income, and race." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The effects of increasing the minimum wage on prices: analyzing the incidence of policy design and context (2016)
MacDonald, Daniel; Nilsson, Eric;Zitatform
MacDonald, Daniel & Eric Nilsson (2016): The effects of increasing the minimum wage on prices. Analyzing the incidence of policy design and context. (Upjohn Institute working paper 260), Kalamazoo, Mich., 53 S. DOI:10.17848/wp16-260
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"We analyze the price pass-through effect of the minimum wage and use the results to provide insight into the competitive structure of low-wage labor markets. Using monthly price series, we find that the pass-through effect is entirely concentrated on the month that the minimum wage change goes into effect, and is much smaller than what the canonical literature has found. We then discuss why our results differ from that literature, noting the impact of series interpolation in generating most of the previous results. We then use the variation in the size of the minimum wage change to evaluate the competitive nature of low-wage labor markets. Finally, we exploit the rich variation in minimum wage policy of the last 10 - 15 years - including the rise of state- and city-level minimum wage changes and the increased use of indexation -- to investigate how the extent of price pass-through varies by policy context. This paper contributes to the literature by clarifying our understanding of the dynamics and magnitude of the pass-through effect and enriching the discussion of how different policies may shape the effect that minimum wage hikes have on prices." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage (2016)
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Manning, Alan (2016): The elusive employment effect of the minimum wage. (CEP discussion paper 1428), London, 25 S.
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"There is a huge body of empirical research on the employment effect of the minimum wage that has failed to clearly demonstrate the negative effect that so many economists strongly believe to find. This paper reviews the reasons for this and argues that the literature needs to re-focus to further our knowledge on the topic." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of the minimum wage on employment dynamics (2016)
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Meer, Jonathan & Jeremy West (2016): Effects of the minimum wage on employment dynamics. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 500-522. DOI:10.3368/jhr.51.2.0414-6298R1
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"The voluminous literature on minimum wages offers little consensus on the extent to which a wage floor impacts employment. We argue that the minimum wage will impact employment over time through changes in growth rather than an immediate drop in relative employment levels. We show that commonly used specifications in this literature, especially those that include state-specific time trends, will not accurately capture these effects. Using three separate state panels of administrative employment data, we find that the minimum wage reduces job growth over a period of several years. This finding is supported using several empirical specifications." (Author's abstract, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))
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The effect of education on the minimum wage (2016)
Pargianas, Christos;Zitatform
Pargianas, Christos (2016): The effect of education on the minimum wage. In: Applied Economics Letters, Jg. 23, H. 11, S. 765-767. DOI:10.1080/13504851.2015.1105917
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"This research shows for the first time that the level of education has a causal, negative effect on the minimum wage. I use 2SLS, with historical educational data as an instrument for the level of education in 2010, and I find that across the US states a one percentage point greater proportion of college graduates is associated with a real minimum wage that is lower by 1.5% - 1.6%. Also, in order to control for state-level omitted variables, I regress the change in the minimum wage on the change in education and I find again a negative, and significantly at the 1% level, effect. Minimum wage is a policy that is chosen by governments according to voters' preferences. The results of this research imply that when the level of education increases voters prefer a lower minimum wage." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Living wage ordinances and wages, poverty, and unemployment in US cities (2016)
Sosnaud, Benjamin;Zitatform
Sosnaud, Benjamin (2016): Living wage ordinances and wages, poverty, and unemployment in US cities. In: Social Service Review, Jg. 90, H. 1, S. 3-34. DOI:10.1086/686581
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"This article examines city-level trends in wages, poverty, and unemployment following the passage of municipal living wage ordinances. Drawing on 15 years of longitudinal data from 1995 to 2009, I first present an analysis of cities before and after the passage of living wage laws and then compare living wage cities to a matched sample of control cities that have not adopted living wage legislation. I find that the adoption of living wage ordinances is not associated with significant changes in wages, poverty, and unemployment at the city level. This can likely be traced to the relatively small proportion of urban workers covered by most existing living wage laws." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health (2016)
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Wehby, George, Dhaval Dave & Robert Kaestner (2016): Effects of the minimum wage on infant health. (NBER working paper 22373), Cambrige, Mass., 48 S. DOI:10.3386/w22373
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"The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on examining the impact of the effective state minimum wage rate on infant health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can thus affect wellbeing in broader ways, and such health effects should enter into any cost-benefit calculus of such policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Effects of the minimum wage on infant health (2016)
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Wehby, George, Dhaval Dave & Robert Kaestner (2016): Effects of the minimum wage on infant health. (IZA discussion paper 10039), Bonn, 48 S.
Abstract
"The minimum wage has increased in multiple states over the past three decades. Research has focused on effects on labor supply, but very little is known about how the minimum wage affects health, including children's health. We address this knowledge gap and provide an investigation focused on examining the impact of the effective state minimum wage rate on infant health. Using data on the entire universe of births in the US over 25 years, we find that an increase in the minimum wage is associated with an increase in birth weight driven by increased gestational length and fetal growth rate. The effect size is meaningful and plausible. We also find evidence of an increase in prenatal care use and a decline in smoking during pregnancy, which are some channels through which minimum wage can affect infant health. Labor market policies that enhance wages can thus affect wellbeing in broader ways, and such health effects should enter into any cost-benefit calculus of such policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Global wage report 2016/17: wage inequality in the workplace (2016)
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International Labour Office (2016): Global wage report 2016/17. Wage inequality in the workplace. (Global wage report 05), Genf, 114 S.
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"The 2016/17 edition examines inequality at the workplace level, providing empirical evidence on the extent to which wage inequality is the result of wage inequality between enterprises as well as within enterprises. The report also includes a review of key policy issues regarding wages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Who is affected by the minimum wage? (2015)
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Belman, Dale, Paul Wolfson & Kritkorn Nawakitphaitoon (2015): Who is affected by the minimum wage? In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 4, S. 582-621. DOI:10.1111/irel.12107
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"Prior surveys of empirical research on the minimum wage have been organized around the question 'What does the minimum wage affect?' This survey is organized around the question 'Who is affected by the minimum wage?' We review the consequences of the minimum wage for teens and young workers, men and women, African Americans and Hispanics, the less educated, workers in low wage industries, and low-wage/low-income populations. Although there is almost universal agreement that the minimum wage boosts earnings, evidence for a negative employment effect varies between mixed and nonexistent. An important gap in the literature is the paucity of research on low-wage/low-income groups." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Interaktionseffekte zwischen Mindestlöhnen und Lohnsubventionen: eine Analyse zur Beschäftigung in den USA und in Deutschland (2015)
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Berthold, Norbert & Mustafa Coban (2015): Interaktionseffekte zwischen Mindestlöhnen und Lohnsubventionen. Eine Analyse zur Beschäftigung in den USA und in Deutschland. In: Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, Jg. 64, H. 1, S. 3-31., 2014-12-17.
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"Der Beitrag geht auf theoretischer und empirischer Ebene der Frage nach, wie Lohnsubventionen und Mindestlöhne in Bezug auf Beschäftigungschancen interagieren und wie diese Interaktionseffekte zwischen einzelnen Arbeitnehmergruppen variieren können. Unter der Annahme eines neoklassischen Arbeitsmarktes und heterogener Arbeit, verdrängen subventionierte Berufserfahrene berufsunerfahrene Arbeitnehmer. Der Effekt auf nicht subventionierte Berufserfahrene bleibt theoretisch offen. Die empirische Überprüfung für die USA ergibt, dass mit steigendem Mindestlohn die Beschäftigung an Berufsunerfahrenen sinkt, an nicht subventionierten Berufserfahrenen konstant bleibt und an subventionierten Berufserfahrenen buckelförmig verläuft. Für Deutschland hingegen zeigen mehrere Simulationsergebnisse, dass die Einführung des Mindestlohns in Höhe von 8,50 Euro in Verbindung mit bestehenden Lohnsubventionen keine Substitutionseffekte auslöst, sondern die Beschäftigung aller Arbeitnehmer im Niedriglohnsektor unabhängig von deren Förderberechtigung senkt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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The minimum wage and the Great Recession: evidence from the current population survey (2015)
Clemens, Jeffrey;Zitatform
Clemens, Jeffrey (2015): The minimum wage and the Great Recession. Evidence from the current population survey. (NBER working paper 21830), Cambrige, Mass., 67 S. DOI:10.3386/w21830
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"I analyze recent federal minimum wage increases using the Current Population Survey. The relevant minimum wage increases were differentially binding across states, generating natural comparison groups. I first estimate a standard difference-in-differences model on samples restricted to relatively low-skilled individuals, as described by their ages and education levels. I also employ a triple-difference framework that utilizes continuous variation in the minimum wage's bite across skill groups. In both frameworks, estimates are robust to adopting a range of alternative strategies, including matching on the size of states' housing declines, to account for variation in the Great Recession's severity across states. My baseline estimate is that this period's full set of minimum wage increases reduced employment among individuals ages 16 to 30 with less than a high school education by 5.6 percentage points. This estimate accounts for 43 percent of the sustained, 13 percentage point decline in this skill group's employment rate and a 0.49 percentage point decline in employment across the full population ages 16 to 64." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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We can afford a $ 12.00 federal minimum wage in 2020 (2015)
Cooper, David; Mishel, Lawrence; Schmitt, John;Zitatform
Cooper, David, Lawrence Mishel & John Schmitt (2015): We can afford a $ 12.00 federal minimum wage in 2020. (EPI briefing paper 398), Washington, DC, 20 S.
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"This paper shows that raising the minimum wage to $12.00 an hour by 2020 is an achievable and economically sustainable goal, and stands within U.S. historical experience. The paper finds that increases in worker productivity and education levels, along with wage increases in regions that paid lower-than-national wages in the past, make returning to the 1968 norm in 2020 an achievable target. An increase to $12 per hour would modestly raise the minimum wage's purchasing power and roughly restore the relationship between the minimum wage and workers in the middle relative to 1968 levels, when the minimum wage was at its historical peak and the national unemployment rate was less than 4 percent." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Pooling multiple case studies using synthetic controls: an application to minimum wage policies (2015)
Dube, Arindrajit; Zipperer, Ben;Zitatform
Dube, Arindrajit & Ben Zipperer (2015): Pooling multiple case studies using synthetic controls. An application to minimum wage policies. (IZA discussion paper 8944), Bonn, 58 S.
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Is there publication selection bias in minimum wage research during the five-year period from 2010 to 2014? (2015)
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Giotis, Georgios & Michael Chletsos (2015): Is there publication selection bias in minimum wage research during the five-year period from 2010 to 2014? (Economics. Discussion papers 2015-58), Kiel, 26 S. DOI:10.7910/DVN/X2AZEJ
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"The impact of minimum wages on employment has always been a field of conflicts among economists and this divergence of views has usually taken the form of competing studies. Doucouliagos and Stanley (Publication selection bias in minimum-wage research? A meta-regression analysis, 2009) conducted a meta-analysis of 64 US studies which showed that literature is contaminated by publication selection bias, and once it is corrected, little or no evidence of a negative association between minimum wages and employment remains. This result contradicts the neoclassical theory and gives a Keynesian perspective which suggests that changes in minimum wages are not related with positive or negative employment effects. In their analysis, the authors use a meta-sample of 45 empirical studies published in academic journals in the 2010 - 2014 five-year period, to investigate whether minimum wage research has been affected by Doucouliagos and Stanley's study. Their results indicate that there is evidence of publication selection in the elasticities' meta-sample, but once it is corrected only a small negative effect remains and, in the coefficients' meta-sample, publication selection bias is not found and the genuine effect is again negative but small. In addition, the authors find that study characteristics related to the data, the model specifications, the minimum wage and employment measure used, and the industry concerned, diversify the sign of the minimum wage effect." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Do minimum wages induce immigration?: the minimum wage affects international migration flows and the internal relocation of immigrants (2015)
Giulietti, Corrado;Zitatform
Giulietti, Corrado (2015): Do minimum wages induce immigration? The minimum wage affects international migration flows and the internal relocation of immigrants. (IZA world of labor 151), Bonn, 10 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.151
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"An increase in the minimum wage in immigrant destination countries raises the earnings that low-skilled migrants could expect to attain if they were to migrate. While some studies for the US indicate that a higher minimum wage induces immigration, contrasting evidence shows that immigrants are less likely to move into areas with higher or more frequent increases in the minimum wage. These different findings seem to reflect different relocation decisions by immigrants who have lived in the US for several years, who are more likely to move in response to higher minimum wages, and by new immigrants, who are less likely to move." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Minimum wage channels of adjustment (2015)
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Hirsch, Barry T., Bruce E. Kaufman & Tetyana Zelenska (2015): Minimum wage channels of adjustment. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 54, H. 2, S. 199-239. DOI:10.1111/irel.12091
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"We analyze the effects of minimum wage increases in 2007 - 2009 using a sample of restaurants from Georgia and Alabama. Store-level payroll records provide precise measures of compliance costs. We examine multiple adjustment channels. Exploiting variation in compliance costs across restaurants, we find employment and hours responses to be variable and in most cases statistically insignificant. Channels of adjustment to wage increases and to changes in nonlabor costs include prices, profits, wage compression, turnover, and performance standards." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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